This bowl likely functioned as a ceremonial object
which are ground down with some water
then stretched to shrink the patterns and either cut across into small
with a triangular body ending in a semicircle and a faux suspension loop at the top
Finely turned from banded alabaster
An Egyptian Neith Shuttle Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 -332 BCE Price - Under $1000 This bowl likely functioned asThis figure of eight object, perhaps a shield, with two arrows crossed behind it. The fetish of Neith as amulet, however, which does not occur before the Twenty sixty Dynasty, represents two bows tied together, a version which had long since ousted the original fetish in most other sources. Often there is a total lack of internal detail, the outline reduced to two fishtail ends and two long convex sides. Since Neith was one of the four goddesses who