Amulet of the Lunar Crescent

Arts of Africa

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 (about 1300 BCE)

Egyptian

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Amulet of the Lunar Crescent
Origin: Egypt
Date: 1300 BCE
Medium: Glass (?)
Dimensions: 1.9 × 2.5 × 0.3 cm (3/4 × 1 × 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson
Reference Number: 1894.880.2
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Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 125.

Reverend Chauncey Murch (1859-1907), Luxor, Egypt; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1894; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson, 1894.

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