An Egyptian Red Jasper Trussed Ox Amulet, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 - 1069 BCE Medium - Bronze Losses to the edges of

Losses to the edges of the toes

Some indications of how hachas were used may be discerned from depictions of ballplayers

From the New Kingdom

The symbolic relationship between birds and human beings was

An Egyptian Red Jasper Trussed Ox Amulet, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 - 1069 BCE Medium - Bronze Losses to the edges ofCarved in the round, a fat trussed ox with its legs tightly bound beneath its body. Amulets of trussed oxen are part of a category of Egyptian amulets in the form of earthly possessions, many of which depict funerary offerings, "intended to keep the various spirit forms which survived death eternally supplied with essential food and drink even if actual supplies had ceased to be presented at the burial place" (Andrews, Carol, 1994. Amulets of Ancient