Amuleti funerari dalla tomba di Bakenrenef (L.24) a Saqqara

Excavations at the tomb of Bakenrenef (L. 24) at Saqqara by the University of Pisa, under the direction of Edda Bresciani, unearthed in 1975 a set of faience amulets which were to be arranged above the wrapped mummy of a deceased. The funerary amulets moulded with a flat underside were pierced by holes around the edge so that they could be incorporated into the bead-net which enveloped the mummy. The fifteen amulets had clearly been used together as a set; the choise of images depended chiefly on their individual symbolic potency. They included a face of Nut goddess, the mourning goddesses Isis and Nephthys, a winged scarab, the goddess Maat, the four Sons of Horus, the Apis bull and the Anubis jackal. The arrangement of this repertoire of images would have provided powerful protection for the deceased. The set of mummy ornaments is dated to the late Saite Period

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