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LOT 0470
Egyptian Black Stone Heart Amulet
NEW KINGDOM, CIRCA 1500-1200 B.C.
1 5/8 in. (13.3 grams, 41.6 mm).
Carved in the half-round, lentoid in plan, with a human head wearing a hatched wig, remains of a scarab beetle in the centre, pierced to reverse for suspension. [No Reserve]
Provenancewith Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983.
Ex private North American collection.
London private collection, 2016.
Cf. Andrews, C., Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, 1994, Fig. 61, for examples of this amulet type.
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