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Description: | Amulets were pieces of jewellery worn by both the living and the dead as charms or as protection against evil. These amulets are carved from ivory tusk. They were found in a grave at the site of Badari in Upper Egypt. They date to the Predynastic period (about 5300-3000 BC). Badari was an important settlement in the Predynastic period. The Badarian culture developed here and much of what we know of this culture comes from excavated graves and cemeteries. These ivory amulets would have been placed in a grave as part of the grave goods deposited with the dead. They would have helped provide the dead with protection in the afterlife. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | Archaeology Egyptian | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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