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Amulet of Ptah in a Gold Shrine

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Post  Admin Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:05 pm

Amulet of Ptah in a Gold Shrine Em-9-s10

The amulet represents Ptah, patron deity of the artists, wearing a straight beard and an unusual headdress of a sun disc and feathers reminiscent of the composite, primordial, creator god Ptah-Tatenen.

His hands emerge from the shroud to hold the djed pillar, the emblem of the god Osiris; the feet do not exist any more.

This lapis lazuli figure of Ptah is set within a superbly decorated gold shrine with a suspension loop on the roof, so that the piece could be worn like an amulet.

Each side of the shrine is decorated with a double pair of gold falcons with solar discs on their heads, standing on papyrus columns. The outer walls of the shrine are covered with a mass of reliefs representing many squatting deities in pairs, six per side, and two per row.
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Dimensions: Width 2.9 cm Height 6 cm
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