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Description: | Fragment of a hippo ivory wand or birthing tusk incised with a jackal's head on one end, as well as a baboon and the head of another animal, perhaps a fantastical creature.
Wands such as these would have been used by a priest or magician during rituals, perhaps to touch a sick person or to make drawings in the sand. The use of hippo ivory connects the obejct to Taweret, the pregnant hippo deity who protected pregnant women and women during childbirth.
The wand was found in the debris in a tomb shaft under the Ramesseum (Tomb 5 - 'The Magician's Tomb') together with several other magical objects in the Museum (see 1787 - 1801 (except 1793), 1832, 1834, 1835, 1837-1841, 1882, 1884, 1886, 1887; possibly 1863, 1883, 1885), a copper alloy serpent wand entwined with human hair, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (E.63.1896), an ivory figurine of a dwarf carrying calf, now in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (E.13405) and a group of magical and medical papyri, which are now in the British Museum, London, and Berlin.
Material: Ivory
Amuletic wand from Thebes, Egypt. | Source: | Manchester Museum | Identifier: | mm.emu.ecatalogue.humanities.109689 | Go to resource |
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