Complete set of faience amulets

Scarab with two separate wings. Each pierced at the edges to allow for stitching to the mummy bandages or sewn onto an elaborate bead net placed over the mummy.

The winged scarab was a symbol of new life and together with amulets in the shape of the Four Sons of Horus the group would offer magical protection helping the dead to be reborn in the afterlife.

The Four Sons of Horus, the guardians of the mummy’s organs: Imsety (man), Qebehsenuef, (falcon), Hapi (baboon), and Duamutef, (jackal); with two scarab wings, and two heads of Horus as a falcon.