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Amulet: Sistrum with Hathor
Egyptian

Title

Amulet: Sistrum with Hathor

Artist

Unknown Artist (Egyptian)

Date

Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 664–332 BCE

Medium

faience

Dimensions

height: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)

Classification

Seals & Amulets

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. A.F. Jonas

Object Number

1936.40

On View

On view

Provenance

Possibly found at Thebes [1].
Frederick George Hilton Price (1842–1909), Hilton Price Collection, no. 2117, London, by 1897;
Entrusted to his estate executor Charles Hercules Read (1875–1929), London, 1909¬–1911;
Sale of Hilton Price Collection, Catalogue of the Important and Extensive Collection of Egyptian Antiquities the Property of the late F.G. Hilton-Price, Esq., Director of the Society of Antiquaries, &c., Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, July 12–14 and 17–21, 1911.
Dr. August Frederick Jonas (1854–1934) and Mrs. A.F. Jonas (née Jessica Maud Stebbins, 1874–1961), Omaha, Nebraska, by 1934–1936;
Gift of Mrs. A.F. Jonas to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1936.

[1] F. G. Hilton Price, A Catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities in the possession of F.G. Hilton Price (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1897), 235, no. 2117.

Exhibition History

None.

Published References

F. G. Hilton Price, A Catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities in the possession of F.G. Hilton Price (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1897), 235, no. 2117.