Hedgehog on box pendant 4th century –30 , perhaps Late Period–Ptolemaic Period This box pendant is topped with a tiny hedgehog whose round eyes and pointed snout have been indicated with wire tube whose projecting tongue is created with a granulated hedgehog was well-known and observed throughout both Egyptian and Greek antiquity. Egyptians had long worn amulets of the small animal - possibly connecting its ability to hibernate and reemerge with rebirth - and its ability to roll into a tiny ball was Hedgehog on box pendant. 4th century –30 , perhaps. Gold. Late Peri


Hedgehog on box pendant 4th century –30 , perhaps Late Period–Ptolemaic Period This box pendant is topped with a tiny hedgehog whose round eyes and pointed snout have been indicated with wire tube whose projecting tongue is created with a granulated hedgehog was well-known and observed throughout both Egyptian and Greek antiquity. Egyptians had long worn amulets of the small animal - possibly connecting its ability to hibernate and reemerge with rebirth - and its ability to roll into a tiny ball was Hedgehog on box pendant. 4th century –30 , perhaps. Gold. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt


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