Isis and her sister Nephthys mourning are protective funerary amulets in the characteristic gesture of lamentation. They were placed on the upper chest of mummies of the Ptolemaic Period to facilitate the resurrection of the deceased as they managed with Osiris1
Gold pectoral L 7.7, H 6.7, T 0.1 Ptolemaic-Roman Period
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Reference
1Andrews C. Amulets of Ancient Egypt 1994, p. 48