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This exceptional gold medallion is crafted from 24K sheet gold and meticulously hammered in the repoussé technique to depict a frontal female head
Provenance: Ambassador Allen Clayton Davis (1927 - ) private collection
Dominating the front are two large circular eyes
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the collection she built with her husband and their commitment to the arts grew
A Royal Egyptian Steatite Scarab, 25th Dynasty, ca. 747 - 656 BCE Jewelry - Necklaces This exceptional gold medallion iscarved from steatite, with naturalistically rendered legs, pierced horizontally for suspension. Functioning as an amulet, the base is finely inscribed Men Kheper Ra Khmeny. Men Kheper Ra Khmeny was a vassal king of the 25th Dynasty, and all evidence indicates that he ruled in Upper Egypt at Hermopolis. He appears with full royal titles on a plaque in the British Museum. For a related example, see Petrie, Scarabs and Cylinders, pl. LIII, no. 25c 7.
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