Pendant Bull head PEN-0030
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Pendant – Bull head PEN-0030

By Hendrickx, Stan

Abydos

, Osiris temple, level 35.

1902 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.

London, Petrie Museum, UC 15225.

Date : Naqada IIIC1 (?)

After the stratigraphy developed by W.M.F. Petrie for the early temple at Abydos. Petrie dates the level to "probably under Mena (= Narmer)".

Material : Serpentine (Carved)

Preservation : Complete

Description

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

Petrie Museum : Online catalogue.
Petrie 1902: pl. LI.5.

Dimensions (cm)

Height :

1.5

Additional information

References

Petrie, W. M. F.

1902

Abydos: Part I. Egypt Exploration Fund 22. London

, 23, pl. LI.5.
Petrie, W. M. F.

1920

Prehistoric Egypt. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account, twenty-third year, 1917. London 

, pl. IX.3.
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

, 309, app. F, no. 30.

Digital references

Petrie Museum

(ed.).

Online catalogue

, retrieved 26.06.2008.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PEN-0030, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PEN-0030. retrieved 11 February 2025.

Related person

Petrie, William Matthew Flinders

Excavation director