Group of 7 amulets

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This group of objects was found on the throat of the Lady Djedmutesankh, threaded together in a tight bunch. There are now 7 amulets of various materials: 2 plaques, one incised with the image of a man and the other with a rearing cobra; 2 wedjat eyes; 1 wadj (papyrus) scepter; 1 heart; and 1 "Isis knot" (girdle tie). Two additional amulets, a heart and a papyrus stalk, both of green glass, disintegrated after they were discovered. See 25.3.169a–i for the individual amulets. For other objects found in the burial of Djedmutesankh, see 25.3.1-.3; 154a-d;.17-.18; .24; .27; and .167-.170.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.

Metropolitan Museum of Art