בידספיריט | AN IVORY WAND WITH ANIMAL

AN IVORY WAND WITH ANIMAL HEAD. - Early 2nd millennium BCE. 16.1 cm. A fragment, ca 1/3 from the back, is missing. Very rare item and in very good condition. Parallels from Egypt are called ”Magic wands”. Ex Abraham Levy coll., Jerusalem. For an important study on such wands see: Fred Vink, 2024, pp. 1-65: ”The Image of Aha and his Anonymous Female Companion on Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period Apotropaia: Typology and Chronology”, in: ”Under the Spell of Bes”, Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter & Robert Steven Bianchi, Eds.