An Egyptian Bone Sun Disc Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 525 BCE The A List featuring four delicately rendered female

featuring four delicately rendered female portrait heads

2009 Desert Mob 2009

She is dressed in long-sleeved

Rosettes give us a vivid idea of Egyptian palace décor

Condition: Some repaired breaks at the base

An Egyptian Bone Sun Disc Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 525 BCE The A List featuring four delicately rendered femaleThe sun disc amulet is unique to the Twenty Sixth Dynasty and later; with possession of this amulet, the deceased could expect to be united with the sun god during his passage across the sky and through the Underworld to be reborn each morning. It is often found near the stomach of mummies. This stylized example featues a square with horizontal grooves, and two pointed sun rays with a small dusn disc in between. Ref: Carol Andrews, Amulets of Ancient