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Heart Amulet
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Heart Amulet

Place of OriginEgypt
DateNew Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, reigns of Amenhotep III to Akhenaten, about 1400 to 1350 B.C
DimensionsH: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); W: 5/8 in. (1.7 cm); Depth: 1/4 in. (0.7 cm)
MediumGlass; core-fused polychrome, rod formed, applied collar, lugs, and marvered threads.
ClassificationGlass
Object number
1980.651
Not on View
Collections
  • Glass
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 22, p. 64, repr. (col.) p. 43.
New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, reigns of Amenhotep III to Akhenaten, about 1400 to 1350 B.C
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Bead
Probably 8th century BCE
Mid-fourteenth to late thirteenth century BCE
Kohl Tube
New Kingdom, late 18th or 19th Dynasty, about 1400-1225 BCE
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, probably the reigns of Amenhotep III-Akenaten, about 1400-1350 BCE

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