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Egyptian Faience Amulet of Sky Goddess Nut as a Sow
Egyptian: Third Intermediate Pre AD 1000: item #915709 GD-427
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Galleria Delvecchio
416-457-6710
$1500
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Here you find a very rare pendant amulet of fecundity, in blue faience, depicts the sky-goddess (mother goddess) Nut as a sow. Seems to be suckling or swallowing her piglets. Dates to the Third Intermediate Period (1085-760 BC). Measures 1 inch in length.
The sky goddess whose arched body formed the vault of heaven gave birth to the sun each dawn and swallowed him each dusk; conversely, she bore the myriad stars each evening and gobbled them up each dawn. It is not surprising that, as mot... Click for details
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