Portraiture and sculpture - Bronze Age - Northern Europe - Published objects
Published objects
Several works of art and artefacts that are or have been in our online gallery are published in literature. We often receive requests concerning published objects when more research or other publications on them are planned. Therefore we will give a list of published objects without this list being claimed to be exhaustive. If you are researching artefacts that have once been handled by our gallery or you would like to investigate an object still in our possession please do not hesitate to contact us. We will be glad to help.
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Egyptian hippopotamus amulet
Made in the style of a scarab but with a hippopotamus on the upper side. It was a protective amulet during the 18th or 19th dynasty of Ancient Egypt. It might have protected a pregnant woman. The amulet comes from the famous Matouk collection and is published in his 1971 book.
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