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Amulet in Shape of Frontal Face, between 1070 and 712 BCE

  • Egyptian

Faience

  • Overall: 9/16 × 5/8 × 1/8 inches (1.4 × 1.6 × 0.3 cm)

Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900

1990.241

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

1900?, gifted by the Egypt Exploration Fund

1990-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Egyptian, Amulet in Shape of Frontal Face, between 1070 and 712 BCE, faience. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900, 1990.241.