Faience flat backed amuletic jewellery element: a white Egyptian lotus or lily petal (Nymphaea lotus) with loop at top for suspension.  This would have been strung to form an openwork broad collar characteristic of the 18th Dynasty.

Mayer Inventory (1928): "M12588. Thirteen porcelain pendants in white, green, blue and red colours; Egyptian".

Lotus Petal Pendant | National Museums Liverpool

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Faience flat backed amuletic jewellery element: a white Egyptian lotus or lily petal (Nymphaea lotus) with loop at top for suspension. This would have been strung to form an openwork broad collar characteristic of the 18th Dynasty. Mayer Inventory (1928): "M12588. Thirteen porcelain pendants in white, green, blue and red colours; Egyptian".

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