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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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An Egyptian-style faience bead worn as part of a necklace by a young woman buried with an infant in Grave 19 of the Shombuuziin Belchir cemetery. Such beads, depicting the phallus of the Egyptian god Bes, are associated with the protection of children.

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© Bryan K. Miller

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