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Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
a much-feared fate against which Chapter 43 was specifically directed
from distant Arabian mines near the Red Sea
acquired from the trade in the early 1970s
otherwise intact and in very good condition overall
A large Egyptian Basalt Headrest Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Jewelry Medium: Acrylic on CanvasBefore the Third Intermediate Period, headrest amulets are found only in royal burials; Tutankhamen owned one of iron, as did Prince Hornakht and King Sheshonq II at Tanis. However, from the Saite Period onward, they are made almost exclusively of hematite or of another dark colored substitute such as basalt (such as this large example), serpentine, obsidian, or diorite. It was essentially intended to magically raise up the head of the deceased in
