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Menqebit (snake's head) amulet
- Date
- 664–332 B.C.
- Type
- Amulet, snake head (menqebit)
- Medium
- Faience
- Department
- Egyptian Art
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Object number
- 26.7.1044
- Credit
- Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926
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