An Egyptian Feldspar Writing Tablet Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Jewelry - Pendants Oxford: Griffith Institute

Oxford: Griffith Institute

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Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute culminating in an exhibition and published catalogue in 2000

single amulets in its shape are not found with certainty before the Saite Period when they are generally well formed in the round (even the ear-flaps are carefully delineated) with a suspension loop at the back such as this example

An Egyptian Feldspar Writing Tablet Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Jewelry - Pendants Oxford: Griffith InstituteAmulets in the form of a writing tablet are unique to the Twenty Sixth Dynasty and later. They are always rectangular in shape with a suspension tube at the top and made from green, blue, or dark colored material, feldspar being by far the most common. Although the Egyptians used labels in this shape as a writing medium from as early as the First Dynasty, this amulet may well represent rather an undetailed scribe's writing palette which was