Objects from the tomb of Thutmose IV, 14th century BCE, including amulets in the form of the ankh, the symbol of life or everlasting life.
Two large amulets in the shape of an ankh were found among shabti figures and other funerary objects from the tomb of Thutmose IV (KV 43).
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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