Lot Essay
Cf. C. Andrews, Ancient Egyptian Jewellery, The British Museum, London, 1990, p. 174, pl. 160a for a similar garnet and gold amuletic 'fly' necklace.
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OLD/MIDDLE KINGDOM, LATE 3RD/EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN GARNET AND GOLD AMULETIC NECKLACE
OLD/MIDDLE KINGDOM, LATE 3RD/EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
Comprising small spherical garnet beads interspersed with a beaten gold ibis, jackal head, falcon, falcon wearing double crown, pschent-crown on a heb-sign, a fly, and a flower bud, restrung
113/8 in. (29 cm.) long
OLD/MIDDLE KINGDOM, LATE 3RD/EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
Comprising small spherical garnet beads interspersed with a beaten gold ibis, jackal head, falcon, falcon wearing double crown, pschent-crown on a heb-sign, a fly, and a flower bud, restrung
113/8 in. (29 cm.) long
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