14-Amulet Necklace

This amulet necklace comprises two rows of faience tubular beads interspersed with tiny multicolored disk beads. At the bottom hang fourteen amulets to imbue the wearer with their powers. They include seven amulets of the hippopotamus goddess Taweret, protectress of women and childbirth; three carnelian amulets of a crouching Horus the Child with his finger to his mouth, signifying the power of Isis’s protective spells for her son; and a calcite heart amulet symbolizing the moral qualities of an individual. At the center of the necklace are a faience Djed-pillar and a papyrus column, symbolizing regeneration and rejuvenation.¹

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1. Andrews 1994, 10, 16, 72–73, 82–83. ↩︎