An Egyptian Red Jasper Trussed Ox Amulet, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 - 1069 BCE Sculpture - Stone they were hand-worked probably by

they were hand-worked probably by bead makers

Provenance: ex Lorenzo Gordon Fritz Collection

"Bronze and Iron

as the crown would only have been worn by the pharaoh and certain deities

just as the sun god was raised above the eastern horizon each morning

An Egyptian Red Jasper Trussed Ox Amulet, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 - 1069 BCE Sculpture - Stone they were hand-worked probably byCarved 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