Fig 32 – Etruscan ‘Stone Votive Statue Of A Young Infant’ Wearing A Bulla Amulet And 2 Pendants Hung From A Beaded Necklace. 2nd Century BC

Fig 32
2nd Century BC
Etruscan ‘Stone Votive Statue of a Young Infant’ – depicting a young boy wearing a beaded necklace with three pendants – 2 curved pendants hang either side of a ‘bulla’ amulet. From the votive offerings near the North Gate of Vulci, Montalto di Castro, Viterbo (Italy).
Vulci, Italy
National Etruscan Museum Of Villa Giulia, Rome

Fig 61 – Funerary Portrait Of A Young ‘Boy With A Floral Garland In His Hair’ Wearing Three Leather Bulla Amulets And A Gold Signet Ring. Fayum Mummy Portrait From Er-Rubayat, Egypt, c.200 – 230 AD

c.200 – 230 AD – Funerary Portrait Of A Young ‘Boy With A Floral Garland In His Hair’ – depicting the Fayum Mummy Portrait of a young boy from Er-Rubayat in Egypt wearing: a black plaited leather necklace with three leather bulla amulets and a gold signet ring on his left hand.
From Er-Rubayat, Egypt
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York

Friday Flick 3 – 200 AD Fayum Portrait

Friday Flick #3: Today’s flick through my PhD Thesis takes us back over 2000 years and details the Fayum Portrait of a young boy wearing amuletic jewellery.