Nefertem

1070-664 BCE (Third Intermediate-Late Period)

2.5 cm 7.1 cm 1.3 cm

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The surface of this cast silver pendant representing Nefertem is very deteriorated but traces of the incised lines marking the kilt and lotus blossom can still be seen. There is a suspension loop behind the blossom and one counterweight is broken off.

Artifact

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25318
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from the pyramids in Egypt]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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