necklace counterpoise (?), menat; Necklaces; Bronze; Copper; Isis and Horus

Corrosion at juncture (modern?) between aegis and extension of menat. Left horn of crown of Isis broken. Heads of Isis and Horus surmount an ornately decorated aegis, or necklace-collar. Horus wears wig and double crown. Isis wears wig and crown of Hathor. On top of aegis, Horus- falcons flank heads of the divinities. Serpents wearing the solar disk border rectangular bar with oval extending beyond the aegis. A standing female figurine, wearing the double crown and holding the ankh in right hand and lotus scepter in left, is engraved on surface of the rectangular bar. The sun-god Re, seated, facing right, holding an ankh, flanked by winged serpents wearing solar disks, is engraved on oval. Necklace counterpoise: Isis and Horus. Bronze.

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