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Seated polymorphic figure of jackal-headed archer

The small, finely detailed amulets 10.130.2439-.2445 are all made of wood. Wooden amulets are often gilded, but the only remaining gilding is on the goddess's sun disk (10.130.2443)..

Credit: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910

664-30 B.C.
Wood
1.6 x 0.2 x 0.6 in
10.130.2442
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020

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