An Egyptian Feldspar Writing Tablet Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Jewelry - Rings acquired from the above sale

acquired from the above sale

exhibition catalogue

outer and inner simple rope-like borders

The hare was a desert dweller and thereby credited with powers of regeneration

Gloria Tamerre Petyarre was born in 1945

An Egyptian Feldspar Writing Tablet Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Jewelry - Rings acquired from the above saleAmulets in the form of a writing tablet are unique to the Twenty Sixth Dynasty and later. They are always rectangular in shape with a suspension tube at the top and made from green, blue, or dark colored material, feldspar being by far the most common. Although the Egyptians used labels in this shape as a writing medium from as early as the First Dynasty, this amulet may well represent rather an undetailed scribe's writing palette which was