Faience Amulet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 May 1957
name: label: Donor Name
content: Harold N. Cox
label: Site Name
content: Luxor
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Pale green; male figure each side of which is front of body, two faces, four ears, four hands. Broken at knees. Exhibit, Hall 26, 1976."
label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Votive statue of Ptah-Patek, 650-200 B.C. This dwarf figure represents one form of the god Ptah, patron of artisans. Ancient Egyptians saw crafts as part of creation, and they believed Ptah, as one of the creator gods, kept the world safe from chaos.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Mar 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Qena, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ptolemaic Period
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 215032
label: USNM Number
content: A419615-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure