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and the thin inner bark is weighted with stones and scorched with fire to flatten it out
from distant Arabian mines near the Red Sea
The plummet (or plumb-line) looks like a pyramid with feet and was most often carved from dark-colored stone
2020 Colours of Spring
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
A large Egyptian Basalt Headrest Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Jewelry and the thin inner barkBefore the Third Intermediate Period, headrest amulets are found only in royal burials; Tutankhamen owned one of iron, as did Prince Hornakht and King Sheshonq II at Tanis. However, from the Saite Period onward, they are made almost exclusively of hematite or of another dark colored substitute such as basalt (such as this large example), serpentine, obsidian, or diorite. It was essentially intended to magically raise up the head of the deceased in
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