Girdle of Princess Sithathor.

This girdle of the Princess Sithathor is made of eight gold, half-open cowry shells. The ones at each end have flat reverses, and were joined by means of grooves to serve as a clasp, fastening the girdle when they slid one into the other. The shells are separated from each other by rhomboidal polychrome beads of carnelian, feldspar, and lapis lazuli.

Two Wadjet Eye Amulets “Eye of Horus”, (obsidian) top: 1.9 cm, bottom: 1.7 cm.

Small seated statuette of Pepi I, reigned 2332-2287 BC, with Horus Falcon (alabaster), 26.5 x 15.7 cms. Pepi I was the third king of the 6th dynasty of the old kingdom of ancient Egypt. Now at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

 

Handle of a knife carved with battle scenes, from Gebel el-Arak, Naqada II, Prehistoric Egypt, ca. 3500-3100 BC, (flint and hippopotamus ivory). Now at the Louvre.

 

Egyptian civilization, Protodynastic Period, Dynasty II. Heb-Sed alabaster vase. From Saqqara.

 

Schist Statue of Osiris.

The oldest of full scorpions.

Model of a scorpion carved from serpentine. From Nekhen (”Hierakonpolis”), Egypt. Early Dynastic Period, First or Second Dynasty. ca. 3150 to 2686 BC. Now in the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.