Pendant Bull head PEN-0006
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Pendant – Bull head PEN-0006

By Hendrickx, Stan

Abydos

, Tomb 618 (Tombs of the Courtiers).

1921–1922 : British School of Archaeology in Egypt excavation.

Collection unknown

Date : Naqada IIIC1

Reign of Djer.

Description

Stylised bull's head amulet with a horizontal perforation at the back. Ni illustration of this artefact has been published.

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Comments

The note in Petrie's register (1925: pl. XX) suggests the presence of more than one amulet in this tomb. None has been located at present.

References

Petrie, W. M. F.

1925

Tombs of the courtiers and Oxyrinkhos. British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account 29, 1922. London.

, pl. XX.
Hendrickx, S.

2002

Bovines in Egyptian predynastic and early dynastic iconography, in: Hassan, Fekri A. (ed.), Drought, food and culture: ecological change and food security in Africa's later prehistory. New York & London

, 307, app. F, no. 6.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PEN-0006, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PEN-0006. retrieved 11 February 2025.

Related person

Petrie, William Matthew Flinders

Excavation director