amulet
- Museum number
- EA20623
- Description
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Djed-pillar.
A djed-pillar as amulet in opaque blue glass, matt surface, excellently imitating lapis-lazuli. Moulded with incised lines on obverse. The reverse is inscribed with a single column of incised hieroglyphs. One end of the lowest cross bar is lost as is the top finial.
- Dimensions
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Height: 5.70 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- J D Cooney, Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum, IV. Glass (London 1976), 24, no. 245.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2010 4th Nov-2011 6th March, Round Reading Room BM, Book of the Dead
2012 July - September, Tokyo, Mori museum, The Book of the Dead: Journey Through the Afterlife
2012, October - November, Fukuoka Museum of Art, The Book of the Dead
2013, May - September, Perth, Western Australian Museum, The Book of the Dead
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1859
- Acquisition notes
- Lot 851 at sale.
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA20623
- Registration number
- 1859,0301.85
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS. 8286a (Birch Slip Number)
