Pharaoh's Daughter Necklace: Out Of Egypt Collection by Kathryn Lane Berkowitz

This bead embroidered collar style necklace was fashioned with bead embroidery in brilliant hues of turquoise, cobalt, and aquamarine blues and crimson and lime and chocolate brown seed beads hand stitched around the scarabs and two motifs of the Egyptian symbol for justice. 
This piece was inspired by the story of the daughter of Pharaoh, who had compassion on the baby Moses and took him out of the water. 
I do not intend to glorify the gods of Egypt, but to honor the woman who had the courage and compassion to be a mother to Moses and unwittingly a heroine to the deliverance of Israel. 
The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, with her maidens walking alongside the Nile; and she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid, and she brought it to her. When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the boy was crying. And she had pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children. Exodus 2:5