| Period: | | Egypt, 3rd Intermediate Period, 3rd Intermediate Period |
| Dating: | | 1085 BC–760 BC |
| Origin: | | Egypt, Lower Egypt |
| Material: | | Faience (all types) |
| Physical: | | 2.9cm. (1.1 in.) - |
| Catalog: | | FAI.VS.01075 |
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This pendant amulet of fecundity, in blue-green-yellow faience, depicts the sky-goddess Nut as a sow. Third Intermediate Period (1085-760 BC).
“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 mother of the stars, she should have taken the form of a great sow, for the female pig’s habit of eating her own piglets must have been well known. Glazed composition amulets of a vast rooting sow, either walking alone or with up to seven piglets marching between her legs, first occur in Third Intermediate period burials. . . Such amulets were intended to endow their wearer with fecundity” (Andrews 1994:35).
Bibliography (for this item)
Andrews, Carol
1994 Amulets of Ancient Egypt. University of Texas Press, Texas. (35 )
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