Frog Amulet
This lively frog carefully carved from a piece of green stone is pierced lengthwise through the base. It may have served as a bezel for a ring or as a pendant on a necklace. Frogs were seen as animals which are related to fertility and creation.
Images (5)
Artifact
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27019
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object
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normalized
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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, lot 244 (78); Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1926, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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language
en
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pageCount
5
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import
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Source image fields (5)
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Terms
Culture
Egyptian
Medium
green stone, probably jasper