Pendant Bull head PEN-0036
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Pendant – Bull head PEN-0036

By Hendrickx, Stan

Palestine, Tell el-Asawir

, Tomb (unidentified).

1955–1958 : Trude Dothan excavation.

Collection unknown

Date : Naqada II–III (?)

Material : Stone, undefined (Carved)

Preservation : Complete

Description

Stylised bull's head amulet with a horizontal perforation at the back. No information about the front side of the pendant has been published.

Anđelković 1995: 27, fig. 3.3.
Anati 1963: 372.
Amiran 1970: pl. 7.

References

Anati, E.

1963

Palestine before the Hebrews. A history, from the earliest arrival of man to the conquest of Canaan. New York.

, 372.
Amiran, R.

1970

The beginnings of urbanization in Canaan, in: Sanders, James A. (ed.), Essays in honor of Nelson Glueck, Near Eastern archaeology in the Twentieth Century. New York

, 89, 99 n.30, pl. 7.
Anđelković, B.

1995

The relations between Early Bronze Age I Canaanites and Upper Egyptians. University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Centre for Archaeological Research 14. Belgrade

, 27, fig. 3.3.
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. 36.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PEN-0036, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PEN-0036. retrieved 10 January 2025.

Related person

Dothan, Trude

Excavator