Fly amulets are common since the Predynastic Period1. Most seem purely apotropaic and intend either to keep away from their wearers this disturbing insect or to emulate fecundity1. The earliest are in ivory, serpentine, and steatite and later on in semi-precious stones, gold, faience and glass1
Green serpentine H 1.4
possibly Late Old Kingdom
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Lapis lazuli H 0.5, W 0.6
Middle Kingdom
reign of Amenhemat II
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Gold of a collar H 1.2
Second Intermediate Period-New Kingdom, Dynasty 17
MET# 2012.237.1
Reference
1Andrews C. Amulets of Ancient Egypt, 1994, pp. 62-63 and Figs. 4b, 48c