Faience amulet. Green and blue. Probably a cornflower. New Kingdom to Third Intermediate Period. From Cyril Aldred at the Royal Scottish Museum Edinburgh. Brovarski et al. (1882, 238) suggests that the cornflower was introduced in the 18th Dynasty from Syria. See Brovarski, E., S.K. Doll and RE Freed (eds) 1982 'Egypts Golden Age. The art of living n the New Kingdom 1558-1085 BC' Boston: Museum of Fine Arts.
