Pendant Bull head, part of a necklace PEN-0007
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Pendant – Bull head, part of a necklace PEN-0007

By Hendrickx, Stan

Ballas

, Tomb L709.

1894–1895 : Egyptian Research Account excavation.

Collection unknown

Date : Naqada II–III

After the tomb card of tomb Q709 a date Naqada IIC–IIIB can be suggested.

Material : Serpentine (Carved)

Preservation : Complete

Description

Stylised bull's head amulet with a horizontal perforation at the back. The horns seem to be hardly marked.  Around the base is a small rim.

Petrie & Quibell 1896: pl. LVIII, Q709/5.

Comments

This pendant is part of a necklace with beads and other pendants, one in the shape of a frog and two of a stylised horn emblem.

References

Quibell, J. E. ; (and colleagues)

1894–1895

Unpublished manuscript excavation Notebook [no. 146: Ballas (tombs Q520–Q530, Q700–Q710), top plans]. Petrie Museum, UCL

, 20.
Petrie, W. M. F. ; Quibell, J. E.

1896

Naqada and Ballas, 1895. Egyptian Research Account 1. London 

, 45, pl. LVIII, Q709/5.
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. 7.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PEN-0007, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PEN-0007. retrieved 11 February 2025.

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Quibell, James Edward

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