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Description: | 1 blue faience heart amulet. 20mm long. Heart amulets become particularly popular from the New Kingdom. However, it was not until the Late Period that they were mass produced. It is thus probable that ours dates to this period.
Early heart amulets seem to have been associated with service to the king. However, they were soon linked to Osiris and were central to the weighing of the heart myth. From the Late Period they are particularly associated with heart deities such as Horus the Child and appear to have been protective and linked with good health in everyday life and the afterlife. For more on heart amulets see R. Sousa 2011 'The Heart of Wisdom. Studies on the Heart Amulet in Ancient Egypt'. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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