- Source: List of ancient Egyptian statuary with amulet necklaces
An amulet, also known as a good luck charm, is an object believed to confer protection upon its possessor. The "Amulets of Ancient Egypt" fall in approximately seven major categories:
Amulets of gods/goddesses and sacred animals
Amulets of protection (or aversion)
The scarab for the living, (or for a funerary offering)
Amulets of assimilation
Amulets for powers
Amulets of possessions, property, or as offerings
(symbolism of materials)
The first usages are from time periods of: ED, Early Dynastic Period, FIP, First Intermediate Period, G-R, Graeco-Roman Period, LD, Late Dynastic Period, MK, Middle Kingdom, NK, New Kingdom, OK, Old Kingdom, SIP, Second Intermediate Period, and TIP, Third Intermediate Period.
Amulets of protection
Amulets of protection: animals, gods, goddesses, etc.
= Ankh Amulet
=(seated)-block statue of: Cuboid Statue of Tety called Tetyty, (photo), British Museum
= Bes Amulet
=(shiny boxwood statuette) Young Girl, (shaved head with youth side lock), Carrying oversized Pot
The Durham Servant Girl, (photo, Durham Museum)
= Eye of Horus Amulet
=Gayer-Anderson cat, (donated to British Museum)
= Eye of Horus Amulet, Thoth-Baboon statues
=Thoth-as Baboon, (Louvre)
Other types of plaque-necklaces on Thoth-baboon:
= 3-Fox-Skins
=vertical Painted Relief Panel of Iry, Scribe, ((correct vertical)-Painted Panel Relief of Iry. )
= Fringed-Fabric ligatured w/ vertical S-(folded cloth)
== Heart amulet
== Pectoral Necklace
== Unidentified amulet
=(two statues) Prince Rahotep, and wife Nofret
= Amulet necklace statues of Senusret III
=– (created by Senusret III(?), or from Kush country(?))Statues of Senusret III
Scarab amulets
Amulets of assimilation
= 2-Wine-Jars
=(tomb relief) Maya (Egyptian) w/Staff and hieroglyph inscriptions–(Tomb of Maya)
References
Andrews, Carol, 1994. Amulets of Ancient Egypt, chapter 4: Scarabs for the living and funerary scarabs, pp 50–59, Andrews, Carol, c 1993, University of Texas Press, 518 amulets, 1, or multiples included in 12 necklaces; (softcover, ISBN 0-292-70464-X)
Keller, 2000. Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, c 2000. Egyptian Treasure from the British Museum, Peter Keller, (Bowers), Robert Anderson, (British Museum), Carol A.R. Andrews, (British Museum), Relief Panel of Iry, p. 40-41. (softcover, ISBN 0-9679612-0-3)
Reeves, 2000. Ancient Egypt, The Great Discoveries, a Year-by-Year Chronicle, Nicholas Reeves, (Thames and Hudson Ltd, London), c 2000. 1975: New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara, pp. 215–219, Other tombs - and Maya, pp. 218–219. (1816-18): After 1816, The Durham Servant Girl, p. 19. (hardcover, ISBN 0-500-05105-4)
External links
Attendant of Pharaoh Narmer, Wikicommons
The Durham Servant Girl-(photo), a boxwood kohl pot-(for kohl), Ancient Egyptian cosmetic containers; Article
(vertical)-Painted Panel Relief of Iry.
Tomb of Ramose