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Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 332-30 B.C.
5 1/2 in. (33 grams, 14 cm).
Restrung as an openwork panel with a winged scarab above and the Four Sons of Horus below as two opposing pairs; restrung with some later beads.
PROVENANCE:
Ex Mariaud de Serres, Paris, France, 1980-1990s.
From a London, UK, collection.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Manley, B., and Dodson, A., Life Everlasting. National Museum of Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins, Edinburgh, 2010, p.114, no.43, for a bead-work shroud incorporating a winged scarab and Four Sons of Horus.
FOOTNOTES:
The Four Sons of Horus were deities responsible for protecting the internal organs of the deceased. The human-headed Imsety protected the liver, the baboon-headed Hapy protected the lungs, the jackal-headed Duamutef protected the stomach, and the falcon-headed Qebehsenuef protected the intestines.
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