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Single-Strand Necklace with Taweret Amulets

Medium: Faience
Possible Place Collected: Thebes, Malkata, Egypt
Dates: ca. 1332-1292 B.C.E.
Dynasty: late XVIII Dynasty (probably)
Period: New Kingdom
Dimensions: 3/16 x 7 15/16 in. (0.5 x 20.2 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 48.66.42
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Lawrence Coolidge and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, and the Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Image: Overall, 48.66.42_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2006

Catalogue Description: Single strand faience necklace. In center single dark blue glazed Thueris amulet; on each side, separated by groups of ten small, blue and blue-green glazed disk beads, six smaller Thueris amulets in light and dark blue, green and purple (?) glaze. At each end a larger group of the same disk beads. Necklace clearly incomplete (possibly intended as bracelet) but order appears convincing. Condition: Glaze on some amulets slightly worn. Otherwise intact.

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