necklace counterpoise (?), menat / Bronze / Copper

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.4676
Object Name: necklace counterpoise (?), menat
Lot: Hoskier, H.C.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Necklaces
Materials: Bronze; Copper
Length: 10.4 cm;
Width: 7.2 cm;
Height: 8.7 cm;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;146g
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Corrosion at juncture (modern?) between aegis and extension of menat. Left horn of crown of Isis broken. Heads of Isis and Horus surmount an ornately decorated aegis, or necklace-collar. Horus wears wig and double crown. Isis wears wig and crown of Hathor. On top of aegis, Horus- falcons flank heads of the divinities. Serpents wearing the solar disk border rectangular bar with oval extending beyond the aegis. A standing female figurine, wearing the double crown and holding the ankh in right hand and lotus scepter in left, is engraved on surface of the rectangular bar. The sun-god Re, seated, facing right, holding an ankh, flanked by winged serpents wearing solar disks, is engraved on oval.; Necklace counterpoise: Isis and Horus. Bronze.
Subjects: Isis and Horus
Verbatim Date: 332 BC - 200 AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: The Gods of Egypt in the Graeco-Roman Period; Preserving Eternity: Modern Goals, Ancient Intentions; Death in Ancient Egypt: Preserving Eternity; Individual & Society in Ancient Egypt; Case 13 - Temple
Exhibition Curator: Gazda, Elaine; Richards, Janet; Wilfong, Terry
Exhibition Year: 1995
Publication Title: The Gods of Egypt in the Graeco-Roman Period; Preserving eternity: modern goals, ancient intentions. Egyptian funerary artifacts in the Kelsey Museum of Archaelogy
Publication Author: Haeckl, A.E.; Spelman, K.C.; Richards, Janet E. and Wilfong, Terry G.
Publication Year: 1977; 1995
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.4676
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.4676/dscn2761.jpg

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Full citation: "necklace counterpoise (?), menat; Bronze; Copper." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.4676/dscn2761.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2024.