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Source Description
The feet have broken away from this black-speckled carnelian representation of Horus-the-Child, but the angle of the legs suggests he was seated on his mother's lap. A loop protruding from the shoulders is also broken off.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
23155
label
Amulet
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
4
Source metadata
id
23155
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Amulet
description
The feet have broken away from this black-speckled carnelian representation of Horus-the-Child, but the angle of the legs suggests he was seated on his mother's lap. A loop protruding from the shoulders is also broken off.
provenance
Collection of Lord Carmichael of Skirling [a few miles north of Biggar, Scotland] [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Antiquities of the Collection of the Late Lord Carmichael of Skirling Sale, Sotheby and Company, London, June 9, 1926, p. 22, lot 235 (21); Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1926, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1200-736 BCE (New Kingdom-early Third Intermediate Period)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Precious Stones & Gems
pendants
amulets
figurine
imageCount
4
pageCount
4
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
1.9
height
1.2
depth
0.1
dimensionsRaw
H: 3/4 x W: 7/16 x D: 1/16 in. (1.93 x 1.15 x 0.09 cm)
Source extras
cul
Egyptian
dynasty
19th-23rd Dynasty
med
carnelian
creator_ids
6182
collection_ids
EGY
JWL
exhibition_ids
2054
2513
2704
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