Undescribed 3

This puzzling artefact¹ has been authenticated by a curator of the British Museum. This bead ressembles a stylized lotus flower/root section. The lotus was a symbol of the sun: at nightfall it closes and goes beneath the water and at dawn it climbs up above the water and reopens. A myth indicates that during creation time a giant lotus flower grew out of a pond and from it the sun rose

Blue glaze, flat back, central piercing with seven holes Ø 2.3, T 0.7
Late New Kingdom-Third Intermediate Period?
Private collection DA

References

¹None, Unpublished amulet