Amulet

Description

Amulet or pendant of green glazed quartz of roughly rectangular shape: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Hierakonpolis, from tomb No 471, late predynastic or early Dynastic period, 3500-2686 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.338

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Amulet, Pendant

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

Predynastic
Early Dynastic

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Quartz

Collection place(s)

Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator: J. Quibell

Exhibitions

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Adams, B. (1974) ANCIENT HIERAKONPOLIS (Supplement), Wilts: Aris & Phillips Ltd, p113, 163

Murray, M. (1900) CATALOGUE OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES, Edinburgh , p.51, cat.964