An Egyptian Diorite Heart Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Architectural and ensured the wearer was

and ensured the wearer was immune from infection and contagious diseases

Most popular in the Late Period

assembled in the 1950s

also wears a yoke and hacha

The NetherlandsArt Gallery of New South Wales

An Egyptian Diorite Heart Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Architectural and ensured the wearer wasTo the Egyptians the heart was the most essential of organs, not because it pumped blood around the body it is unclear that they understood this function but because they believed it was the seat of intelligence, the originator of all feelings and actions, and the storehouse of memory. From the New Kingdom, the heart became one of the most important of all amulets and was set on every mummy until the end of the Pharaonic period, often in numbers and