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An Egyptian Red Jasper Trussed Ox Amulet, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 - 1069 BCE Medium - Bronze and infilling motifs including dotted

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and infilling motifs including dotted rosettes and semicircles

Doreen and Yuendumu with them

The dark-brown surface of this lovely bronze vessel is partially covered with a beautiful green patina

Chapter 166 of the Book of the Dead further reveals that it would also prevent the deceased head from being cut off

An Egyptian Red Jasper Trussed Ox Amulet, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 - 1069 BCE Medium - Bronze and infilling motifs including dottedCarved in the round, a fat trussed ox with its legs tightly bound beneath its body. Amulets of trussed oxen are part of a category of Egyptian amulets in the form of earthly possessions, many of which depict funerary offerings, "intended to keep the various spirit forms which survived death eternally supplied with essential food and drink even if actual supplies had ceased to be presented at the burial place" (Andrews, Carol, 1994. Amulets of Ancient

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