
Francesca Hickin
Head of Department
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Provenance:
Resandro collection, Europe, primarily formed late 1960s-1997 (R-660 (HA 192), R-603 (HA 232), R-535 (HA 88), R-540 (HA 119), R-544 (HA 100), R-556 (HA 187), R-560 (HA 209)).
Published:
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012.
Headrest amulets were 'intended magically to raise up the head of the deceased in resurrection, just as the sun god was raised above the eastern horizon each morning' (C. Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, 1994, p. 95).