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Hey guys! Super weird. Found this necklace on my floor, and have never seen it before. Neither have any of my family members or friends. If anyone could identify what this may mean or what it is, please let me know!

All about the era of King Ramesses II

Pectoral of Paser

-1279 / -1212 (Ramses II)

Place of discovery: isolated tomb Ramses II

E 68; IM 2893; N 762; S 1344

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

Inventory number Main number: E 68

Other inventory number: IM 2893

Other inventory number: N 762

Usage number: S 1344

Collection
Department of Egyptian Antiquities

Description

Object name/Title Denomination: pectoral in naos

Title: Pectoral of Paser

Description/Featuresscarabee (flanked by); Isis (standing, sign of Isis, protecting); Nephthys (standing, sign of Nephthys, protecting); band of alternating rectangles; with belière (2); missing inlay

Registrations Writing:
Hieroglyphic

Nature of the text:
Funeral formulas

Names and titlesPaser (vizir, city director)

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Dimensions Height: 8.7 cm; Length: 10.1 cm; Thickness: 2.6 cm

Materials and techniques Material: lapis-lazuli, gold

Secondary material: glass

Technique: cutting, half-round bump, welding

Color: red-green-blue

PLACES AND DATES

Date Ramses II (character mention) (-1279 - -1212)

Date of discovery 19 March 1852

Place of discovery isolated tomb Ramses II (Serapeum of Memphis->Saqqara-Nord-Saqqara) (Salle de Schaem-djom. Under the coffin, on the right, when entering.)

HISTORY

Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / Dedicate Mariette Pasha, Auguste, Dilleur/Archaeologist

Acquisition details share after excavations

Acquisition date date of registration on the inventory: 20/05/1852

Owned by State

Held by Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities

LOCATION OF OBJECT

Current location
Not exposed

Acquisition method: sharing after excavations

Name pectoral in naos

Material- lapis-lazuli - glass

Cutting techniques - welding - half-round-bump

Description/Features sign of Isis - sign of Nephthys - protecting - flanked by - standing - 2 - beetle - Isis - Nephthys - band of alternating rectangles - with belière - missing inlay

Names and titles Paser - vizier - director of the city

Period Ramses II

Isolated Places tomb of Ramses II

Nature of text: funerary formulas

Script hieroglyphic

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Boyer, Valentin, "Ancient Egypt in Exlibris. Objects and Images: Egyptological and Archaeological Sources", in Bouhafs, Amel; Chapon, Linda; Claude, Marion; Danilova, Margarita; Dautais, Louis; Fathy, Noemie; Fernández Pichel, Abraham I. ; Guigner, Mallaury; Pinon, Marianne; Valerio, Marta (dir.), Current Research in Egyptology 2022.

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Symposium, Paul-Valéry University Montpellier 3, 36-30 September 2022, Oxford, Archaeopress, 2023, p. 46-60, p. 52

De Putter, Thierry; Karlshausen, Christina, Stones of Ancient Egypt. Guide to materials in architecture, sculpture and jewelry., Brussels, (Knowledge of ancient Egypt 20), 2022, p. 196, 198

Dalino, Edwin, The high priests of Egypt in the Ramesside era: Prosography and History, 2, Corpus, Milano, SylvanaEditoriale, (CENiM 30), 2022, p. 463

Staring, Nico, The Saqqara Necropolis through the New Kingdom. Biography of an Ancient Egyptian Cultural Landscape, Leiden; Boston, Brill, (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 131), 2022, p. 433

Charron, Alain; Barbotin, Christophe (ed.), Khaemouaset, the archaeologist prince. Knowledge and power in ancient Egypt, cat. exp. (Arles, Departmental Museum of Ancient Arles, 2016), Arles / Ghent, Departmental Museum Arles Antique / Snoeck, 2016, p. 81, 114, 115, 116-117, 118, p. 116, No. 44

Aubert, Jacques-François; Aubert, Liliane, Egyptian Bronzes and Golds, Paris, Cybèle, (Contribution to Egyptology; 11), 2011, p. 100

Caubet, Annie; Pouysségur, Patrick; Prat, Louis-Antoine (ed.), The Empire of Time: Myths and Creations, cat. exp. (Paris, Louvre Museum, 2000), Paris, RMN, 2000, p. 95, ill. p. 95, No. 79

Ziegler, Christiane, "Pharonic Egypt: the example of the jewels of the Serapeum", in Caubet, Annie (ed.), Carnelian and precious stones. The Mediterranean, from Antiquity to Islam, Paris, La Documentation française / Louvre éditions, 1999, p. 15-41, p. 26, 28 note 17, 31, 35, fig. 1, 12

Dodson, Aidan, "Of Bulls & Princes: the Early Years of the Serapeum at Sakkara", KMT, 6/1, 1995, p. 18-32, p. 25, ill. p. 25

Delange, Élisabeth, the jewels of Egyptian antiquity, [Musée du Louvre, Paris], Paris, Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1990, p. 16

Donohue, V.A., "The Vizier Paser", The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA), 74, 1988, p.103-123, p. 110

Porter, Bertha; Moss, Rosalind L.B., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings, 3.2, Memphis. Saqqâra to Dahshûr, Oxford, Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, 1981, Available at: http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/topbib/pdf/pm3-2.pdf, p. 783

Gregorietti, Guido, The wonderful world of jewelry, Paris, The 2 golden roosters, 1971, p. 112

Kitchen, Kenneth Anderson, Ramesside Inscriptions. Historical and Biographical, 2, Oxford, B.H. Blackwell Ltd, 1969-1979, p. 366-367, No. 130, B, ii

Michalowski, Kazimierz, The art of ancient Egypt, Paris, L. Mazenod, 1968, p. 460, fig. 797 p. 440

Vandier, Jacques, Summary Guide, [Museum of the Louvre, Paris. The Department of Egyptian Antiquities], Paris, Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1952, p. 49

Vandier, Jacques, Summary Guide, [Museum of the Louvre, Paris. The Department of Egyptian Antiquities], Paris, Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1948, p. 48

Maspero, Gaston, "The Egyptian jewels of the Louvre", in Essays on Egyptian art, Paris, Eastern and American bookstore E. Guilmoto, Publisher, 1912, p. 179-188, p. 182, fig. 55 p. 183

Rougé, Emmanuel de, Summary description of the rooms of the Egyptian Museum, [Imperial Museum of the Louvre], Paris, Librairies-imprimeries réunies, 1895, p. 74

Towry Whyte, E., "Notes on Pectorals", Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology (PSBA), 15, 1893, p. 409-416, p. 411

Darcel, Alfred, "The technique of antique jewelry (second and last article)", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 37, 1888, p. 242-250, p. 242, ill. p. 243

Pierret, Paul, Catalogue of the historical room of the Egyptian gallery, Paris, 1882, Available at: https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/idurl/1/11830 , p. 125, No. 524

Mariette, Auguste, Le Sérapéum de Memphis, Paris, Gide, 1857, Available at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6231404v, p. 14, pl. 12

Rougé, Emmanuel de, Summary notice of Egyptian monuments exhibited in the galleries of the Louvre Museum, [Imperial Museum of the Louvre], Paris, Imp. Simon Raçon et Comp., 1855, Available on: https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/idurl/1/12321, p. 63

EXHIBITION HISTORY
- Khaemouaset, the archaeologist prince. Knowledge and power in ancient Egypt, Arles (Externe, France), Departmental Museum of Ancient Arles, 08/10/2016 - 22/01/2017

Last updated on 24.10.2025

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Title:
Pectoral of Paser, -1279 / -1212 (Ramses II), Place of discovery: isolated tomb Ramses II, gold lapis lazuli and glass, The Louvre Museum

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010011105

The Louvre Museum

A few pictures from a truly amazing place.

Image of Osiris

Bronze statue of a standing Osiris, gilded and with inlaid details. On the head the atef crown, over the chest the crossed arms with crooked staff and vlegel

Measurements: H. 105 cm (without socket under feet). No plinth but hollow square socket directly under feet, h. 12 cm.

Description: Osiris standing with feet closed, separation of feet not marked. Anatomy of legs well-modeled (calves, knees, no shins). Both arms are with protruding elbows, arms crossed right over left, fists with modelled fingers. Right fist (on left shoulder) holds flail (on right shoulder; i.e. sceptres cross too!): short butt protruding under fist, plain handle, tripartite pendant interrupted by triple bead-pattern or strap. Left fist (on right shoulder) holds crook (on left shoulder): handle id., curve towards neck. No collar. Head with detailed features: curved beard, fully free, with braiding indicated by recesses filled with inlays of dark grey to blue stone (partly preserved, set in brown paste). Straps of beard likewise recessed and filled with stone inlays (fully preserved), brownish grey. Well-modeled lips and nose (nostrils indicated). Eyes with rims, brows, and cosmetic stripes recessed and filled with brown/grey inlays. Sockets of the eye filled with three pieces of stone (left: light-dark-light, discoloured) or white paste (right: ancient restoration?). Detailed ears applied. Upper-Egyptian crown (ridged edge on front only) flanked by ostrich feathers (oblique recesses with exterior ends rounded and separated from rest by transverse ridge; brown paste in tips, greenish paste in rest, inlays themselves lost). Uraeus protome applied, with 8-shaped curve and wavy tail extending upwards.

Technique: Hollow cast with one square iron bar from feet to head. Cross-supports detected: on central axis above insteps, at belly, and chest under fists; lateral at left hip and both shoulders; torso on each side of fists and above sceptres. Core material was fully preserved, removed 1990 during restoration. Socket open to interior of statue, but miscast: bronze skin turned inwards, left part of socket not consisting of bronze but added in plaster, 1990 replaced by metal during restoration. Transverse pin through socket for securing. Whole surface covered in white plaster and overlaid in gold leaf, large patches fell off but 1990 added again. Right feather and tip of left feather lost (now added). Protome of uraeus lost (now added). Feathers fixed by means of two pegs fitting into sockets in crown, separately cast. Tip of crown lost (now reconstructed). Serpent cast separately.

This statue of Osiris is the largest bronze statue from Egypt in the RMO collection. Casting such a figure required great craftsmanship.

This image was made according to the lost-wax method: a model of beeswax was made around an earth core. Around it was a layer of clay that was connected to the core. The wax was melted away and the metal could be poured into the cavity. For this statue, the bronze skin was then plastered and gilded with gold leaf. The separately cast feathers of the crown and the eyes, eyebrows and beard still have remnants of colored stone inlay.

The statue represents the god Osiris. He can be recognized by his mummy face, with his legs tight together. The arms are crossed over the chest here. In his right hand, Osiris holds an attribute that is usually called 'scourt'. In his other hand, the god holds a crooked stick, as used by shepherds to drive together cattle. These two attributes have been considered the scepters of royalty since the first Egyptian kings. Osiris wears them because he was once king of Egypt. After being killed by his brother Seth, he became king of the realm of the dead.

Possibly the statue was given to a temple by a rich person, or it stood in a special chapel as a cult statue, to be revered as an image of the god of a particular temple.

This text was written in 2024 and is based on: Willemsen (ed.), Topstukken from the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, 2020, p.61 ; Raven and Taconis, Egyptian Mummies, 2005, p.146-150.

Title:
Image of Osiris, Bronze and gilding and inlay, no date or findspot given, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

https://www.rmo.nl/en/collection/search-collection/collection-piece/?object=22576

Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

I haven't found many good Ancient Egyptian puzzles, so I had this one made last week. The scene is one of my favorites - Iwn-mwt.f offers incense to Seti while Isis shakes her sistrum. Taken from the west wall of Seti's chapel within the inner Osiris complex in Abydos.

Pectoral in the form of a naos featuring Thot,Horus, and on the opposite side Anubis

-1539 / -1069 (New Kingdom)

N 2752; Salt No. 1070

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

Inventory number
Main number: N 2752

Collection
Department of Egyptian Antiquities

Description

Object name/Title Denomination
pectoral in naos

Description/Feature
multiple drilling (4, at the top, on the sides)

Decor
Horus (on the front, hawk-headed god, squatting, tripartite wig, shroud, necklace); Thot (on the front, ibis-headed god, squatting, tripartite wig, shring); Anubis (on the back, canid, lying down, necklace, flagellum)

Registrations Writing:
Hieroglyphic

Nature of the text
Behalf

Names and titles Thot; Horus; Anubis

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Dimensions
Height: 8.5 cm; Width: 7 cm; Thickness: 1 cm

Materials and techniques Material
wood

Technique
protruding bas-relief, painting

PLACES AND DATES

Date
New Kingdom (bibliography/reference work) (-1539 - -1069)

HISTORY

Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / Dedicatee
Salt, Henry, Seller; Collector

Acquisition details
purchase

Acquisition date
date of arrival at the Museum: 1826

Owned by State

Held by Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities

LOCATION OF OBJECT

Current location
Sully, [AE] Room 319 - Book of the Dead, Showcase 6

Index

Acquisition method of purchase

Name pectoral in naos

Materials wood

Painting techniques - protruding bas-relief

Description/Features
Thot - on the back - on the front - on the sides - at the top - squatting - lying down - necklace - canid - 4 - flagellum - Horus - ibis-headed god - falcon-headed god - Anubis - shrench - tripartite wig - multiple drilling

Names and titles Thot - Anubis - Horus

Period New Kingdom

Nature of text
nom

Script
hieroglyphic

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Guichard, Sylvie (ed.), Champollion, Jean-François, Descriptive notice of the Egyptian monuments of the Charles X Museum, Paris, Louvre editions / editions Khéops, 2013, p. 210, ill. p. 210, K. 1486 to 1488

Daumas, François (ed.), Summary catalogue of Egyptian objects exhibited at the Fabre Museum from December 5 to 15, 1972, cat. exp. (Montpellier, Fabre Museum; December 5-15, 1972), Montpellier, Paul Valéry University, 1972, p. 10, No. 94

Champollion, Jean-François, Descriptive notice of the Egyptian monuments of the Charles X Museum, Paris, Imprimerie de Crapelet, 1827, Available at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1040365n, p. 90, K. 1486 to 1488

EXHIBITION HISTORY
- 150th anniversary of the decryption of hieroglyphs by Champollion, Montpellier (Externe, France), Musée Fabre, 05/12/1972 - 15/12/1972

Last updated on 29.07.2026

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Title:
Pectoral in the form of a naos featuring Thot,Horus, and on the opposite side Anubis, -1539 / -1069 (New Kingdom), Wood and paint, Findspot unknown, The Louvre Museum

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010007171

The Louvre Museum

Harkhuf, an Egyptian official and expedition leader, traveled south of Egypt and returned with a dwarf (pygmy). When the young Pharaoh Pepi II learned about him, he sent Harkhuf a letter expressing his great excitement and ordering him to take special care of the man during the journey.

The king instructed Harkhuf to make sure the dwarf remained safe, appoint trustworthy guards to protect him, and prevent him from falling into the water. Pepi II even stated that he was more eager to see the dwarf than to receive the valuable goods brought from distant lands.

The letter is preserved as an inscription in Harkhuf’s tomb at Qubbet el-Hawa near Aswan, making this one of the most remarkable surviving accounts of a personal royal correspondence from ancient Egypt.

Pectoral in the form of a Naos featuring a Scarab

-1539 / -1069 (New Kingdom)

N 2743

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

Inventory number Main number: N 2743

CollectionDepartment of Egyptian Antiquities

Description

Object name/Title Denomination: pectoral in naos

Multiple Description/Featurespercement (4, top)

Decor: representation of the sunrise; Khépri (beetle, armed with wings, holding, solar disc, in, boat, flanked by); monkey (2, standing, worshiping); oudjat eye (2); fish (2); frame of alternating rectangles (undecorated back)

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Dimensions Height: 12 cm; Width: 11.5 cm

Materials and techniques Material: siliceous earthenware

Color: bright blue with black decor

PLACES AND DATES

Date New Empire (-1539 - -1069)

HISTORY

Acquisition details old fund

Acquisition date date of registration on the inventory: 16/02/1857 (at the latest)

Owned by State

Held by Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities

LOCATION OF OBJECT

Current location
Sully, [AE] Room 319 - Book of the Dead, Showcase 6

Index

How to acquire old fund

Name pectoral in naos

Materials siliceous earthenware

Description/Featuresboat - equipped with wings - solar disk - oudjat eye - adoring - holding - flanked with - in - at the top - representation of sunrise - standing - monkey - 4 - 2 - fish - beetle - Khépri - frame of alternating rectangles - multiple drilling

PeriodNew Empire

Last updated on 14.01.2026

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Title:
Pectoral in the form of a Naos featuring a Scarab, -1539 / -1069 (New Kingdom), findspot unknown, Siliceous earthenware, The Louvre Museum

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010007170

The Louvre Museum

I'm having trouble with the following cartouche. It's a nomen, from Tanis

Left to right we have from the Gardner sign list.

U6 C12 C2 F31 and one element that's destroyed

U6 transliterates as mr, F31 as ms

C2 is horus, c12 amun/ra

The look into the face part is odd because it goes both ways.

Then we also have honorific transposition going on.

I suspect the U6/mr is beloved of.

The deep cutting tells me its Ramesses, beloved of Horus?

So how should be read, and the change of direction as well

Pectoral with heart amulet

Egyptian
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18-19
1352–1186 B.C.

MEDIUM/TECHNIQUE
Polychrome faience

DIMENSIONS
Height x length: 12 cm (4 3/4 in.)

CREDIT LINE
Walter and Celia Gilbert Acquisition Fund for Ancient Egyptian Art

ACCESSION NUMBER
2014.857.1-2

NOT ON VIEW

COLLECTIONS
Jewelry, Africa and Oceania, Ancient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East

CLASSIFICATIONS
Jewelry / Adornment – Pectorals

PROVENANCE
Between 1895 and 1898, found at Abydos, Egypt, by Emile Amélineau (b. 1850 – d. 1915), Châteaudun, France; February 8-9, 1904, Amélineau sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 55. 1925, A. Caron; December 9-11, 1925, Caron collection sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 13. Before 1980, Robert Monier, France. 1985, acquired by Charles Bouché (b. 1928 – d. 2010), France; October 24, 2012, posthumous Bouché collection sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 11. By 2013, Rupert Wace Fine Art, London; 2014, sold by Rupert Wace to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 25, 2014).

Title:
Pectoral with heart amulet, Egyptian, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18-19 1352–1186 B.C., Polychrome faience, Findspot unknown, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/596125/pectoral-with-heart-amulet?ctx=70558991-bfd9-4a1c-a6fc-99f5d92519a2&idx=134

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston