LOT 0120 EGYPTIAN COLLECTION OF TEN AMULETS
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Ca. 1520-30 BC. New Kingdom - Ptolemaic Dynasty. A collection of ten amulets. Four of them are made of orange-red carnelian, and the other six are dark red jasper. There are four jasper djed pillar amulets, two jasper seed amulets, one carnelian amulet of a striding woman with a dorsal column, one carnelian Ptaichos amulet, one carnelian amulet of a mummiform figure (now headless, probably depicting Osiris), and one carnelian poppy seed amulet (the base of which has broken off). Djed pillars symbolised stability, as they represented the replacement backbone which Isis fashioned for Osiris after, in some versions of the myth, his real backbone was eaten by wildlife while Isis was trying to gather and reassemble his dismembered body parts. Poppy seeds, much like today, represented the growth of new life after death, and they, along with the Osiris amulet, would have invoked a successful afterlife when placed in the tomb. Ptaichos was a dwarf god with apotropaic qualities whose amulets could be worn for any number of protective effects. The striding woman probably depicts an uncertain goddess who would have protected the amulet's wearer. Size: L:Set of 9: 12 - 25mm / W:4 - 12mm ; 10g. From a London private family collection; formerly acquired on the UK art market in the 1960s - 1970s; thence by descent.
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