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Design Amulet, Back in the Form of a Woman Suckling a Child, Device showing Two Lizards Head-to-tail

Unknown Artist

ca. 2100–2080 B.C.

Design Amulet, Back in the Form of a Woman Suckling a Child, Device showing Two Lizards Head-to-tail by Unknown Artist

Medium

Steatite, glazed

Dimensions

H. 1.8 × W. 1.2 × D. 1.4 cm (11/16 × 1/2 × 9/16 in.)

Classification

Design Amulet, woman with baby, lizards

Period

First Intermediate Period

Department

Egyptian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910

Accession Number

10.130.751

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