EGYPT, LARGE BRECCIA HEART AMULET
EGYPT, LARGE BRECCIA HEART AMULET
Decorated with the large bird BENU, resembling a heron with two feathers on the back of its head, symbol for creation, power of living, will and resurrection. Inlaid with bronze as well as with red and light blue glaze.
Ex priv. coll. J.J.M., Netherlands 1950-1992, H.W.S. Neth. inherited in 2000. Ticket of Sotheby’s London, 1992 H 056087 no. 83
H. 5,9 cm. Top slightly worn. Rare and large for its size.
Late New Kingdom, 19th-20th Dyn., c. 1295-1070 BC
Cf. C. Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London 1994, pp.72-3, fig. 100c; Petrie, Amulets, p. 10, 7f for white and red breccia
€ 5.500