Taweret Amulet
- Accession Number
- EC907
- Current Location
- House of Life (first floor), Faience case
- Object Type
- Jewellery, Amulet
- Material
- Faience
- Provenance
- Egypt
- Measurements
- Height: 12mm | width: 7mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Divine Name
- Taweret
Licensing details
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- Description
-
A faience Taweret amulet. Taweret protected women in childbirth and took the form of a hippopotamus with a crocodile tail down her back.
- Previous Owner
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Assumed long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 21 Jan 2021