amulet;
pendant
- Description
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Amuletic pendant in glazed composition; heart shaped.
- Production date
- 6thC BC - 2ndC BC (possibly)
- Curator's comments
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Object owned and held by Egyptian Museum, Cairo. This record is included in the British Museum database as part of the Museum’s Naukratis Project, a research collaboration that aims to virtually re-unite finds from the ancient port city of Naukratis, now distributed over 80 museums worldwide.
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The heart is one of the most important funerary amulets, usually placed on the upper part of the torso of the mummy (Andrews 1994, 72). Heart-shaped amuletic pendants are very common during the Late and Ptolemaic periods (Petrie 1914, 10, pl. I no. 7).
On heart amulets see: Andrews 1994, 72-73; Herrmann et al. 2010, 133 (type 78).
Andrews, C. 1994, Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London.
Herrmann, C., Staubli, T., Berger-Lober, S., Keel, O., Schönbächler, G. 2010, 1001 Amulett : altägyptischer Zauber, monotheisierte Talismane, säkulare Magie, Bibel+Orient-Museum, Liebefeld, Stuttgart.
Petrie, W.M.F. 1914, Amulets, London.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- External
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: JE26775 (Accession Number)
