String of Beads with Feline-head Amulets

New Kingdom

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 114

The use of feline's-head ornaments in jewelry is well known from the Twelfth Dynasty (ca. 1981-1802 B.C.) and continues in the early Eighteenth Dynasty. It is difficult to identify the type of cat that the Egyptians had in mind, although most seem to be leopards, an animal that, in the Middle Kingdom, has apotropaic properties. For a feline-head ring in the collection see 26.7.773.

String of Beads with Feline-head Amulets, Gold, Egyptian blue

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