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The Minoan Snake Goddess, Bronze Age Minoan (3000 BC - 1100 BC) figurine, excavated in 1903 from Knossos Minoan palace (Crete) by Sir Arthur Evans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_snake_goddess_figurines

https://artrkl.com/blogs/news/the-minoan-snake-goddess

Zoomorphic Vessel (Fallow Deer), Northern Iran, c. 1350-1000 BCE,

Brown burnished ware, 34.6x34.5 cm

Faience ring with Udjat eye, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, 1550-1292 BC

Chalcedony intaglio, possibly the portrait of Queen Loadike, wife of Mithradates IV of Pontus, 2nd century BC

Gold ring set with mouse amulet, Egypt, from the reign of Thutmose III, 1479-1425 BC

Bronze 'Head of Immortal' Vase, Shang Dynasty, 14th-13th Century BCE. Unearthed from Dayangzhou in Xin'gan, Jiangxi

Mummy board of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettewy, Egypt, 1000-945 BC

Copper Amun-Ra in a Portable Naos, c. 800–600 B.C.

▫ This intricately worked amulet takes the form of a miniature naos (a sacred shrine) designed to be worn, revered, and pressed into service as a seal. Within sits a removable figure of Amun-Ra, enthroned and crowned with tall double plumes, once holding a now-lost emblem of power.

Hieroglyphs identify the shrine as a royal donation to Amun-Ra by King Thutemhat, while the base bears the phrase Domain of Amun (“pr Imn”) allowing the object to double as a stamp-seal.

Egyptian limestone panel with Amun-Ra as a ram-headed deity wearing a solar disc

Ptolemaic period

~ Amulet.

Bull's head rhyton, Minoan, 1600-1500 BC

Inside tomb of Queen Nefertari (QV66), Valley of the Queens, Thebes.

Photo: Ivan Sebborn

Interior of the vestibule within the tomb of Queen Nefertari. At center is the entrance to a larger room known as the First east side annexe. Nefertari Meritmut, who lived around 1300-1255 BC, was the Great Royal wife of king Ramesses II.

The tomb of Nefertari is located in the Valley of the Queens, near the ancient city of Thebes. It is one of the best preserved and most ornate of all known tombs. The walls are painted with the deities (from left to right) Serket, Isis, Khepri, Osiris (above entrance), Hathor and Horus.