Pendant Bull head PEN-0018

Pendant – Bull head PEN-0018

By Hendrickx, Stan

Mediq
, Cemetery 79, Tomb 117.
1908–1909 : Archaeological Survey of Nubia excavation.

Aswan, Nubian Museum, 182.

Date : Naqada IIIA1

Dated after description of cemetery and tomb by Firth (1912: 139–140).

Material : Stone, undefined (Carved)

Preservation : Complete

Description

Stylised bull's head amulet with a horizontal perforation at the back. The horns are not indicated.

Firth 1912: pl. 37a.16.

Comments

The stone from which the pendant is carved is only described as a "green stone".

References

Firth, C. M.

1912

The archaeological survey of Nubia: report for 1908–1909. Cairo

, I: 139–140; II: pl. 37a.16.

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. 18.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PEN-0018, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PEN-0018. retrieved 10 January 2025.

Related person

Firth, Cecil Mallaby

Excavation director