Amulet of Horus the Child

1550-1307 BCE (New Kingdom)

0.9 cm 2.6 cm 0.1 cm

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The god Horus-the-Child seated on a pillow, knees drawn up, is carved in relief on both sides of a thin piece of lapis lazuli. A perforation runs from the top of the head to the back of the skull.

Artifact

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17114
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Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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4
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