Pendant Bull head PEN-0010
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Pendant – Bull head PEN-0010

By Hendrickx, Stan

Helwan

, Tomb 597H5.

1945–1947 : Royal Excavations at Saqqara and Helwan.

Cairo, Egyptian Museum.

Date : Naqada IIIC1–IIID

Date after description by Saad (1951).

Material : Diorite (Carved)

Preservation : Complete

Description

Stylised bull's head amulet with a horizontal perforation at the back. The horns are clearly marked but do not touch. A hole is drilled within each curve of the horns. Around the base is a small, protruding rim. The eyes are drilled.

Saad 1951: pl. XLIIIa.
Saad 1951: pl. XLIIIb.

References

Saad, Z. Y.

1951

Royal excavations at Helwan (1945–1947). Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte, suppl. cahier 14. Cairo

, 36, pl. LXI, XLIII.
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

, 308, app. F, no. 10.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PEN-0010, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PEN-0010. retrieved 11 February 2025.

Related person

Saad, Zaki Youssef

Excavation director