Faience amulet of Ptah
Faience amulet, Ptah. Illustration: No
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- ID
- EMC_JE_53959
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- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Amulets and pendants
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- Findspot
- Pit G 7652 A, room I
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- Material
- Faience
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- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
- HUMFA_29-4-268g
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- Cairo Special Register number
- EMC_SR_7/5352
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- Date of Register Entry
- 04/19/1929, 04/20/1929
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- Object owned by
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Notes
- Three such amulets originally registered as HUMFA_29-4-268g; now in collection of Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_53957, EMC_JE_53958, and EMC_JE_53959).
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- Remarks
- These amulets depict the standing figure of the Memphite creator god Ptah in his human form, with several characteristic attributes, including mummiform wrappings, a close-fitting skull cap and was-scepter. In this example, he also wears a sun's disc, horns, and a side lock.
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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- Type Object owned by