Text, Faience composite amulet

European Museums, The British Museum

Faience composite amulet. Napatan Period, about 700 - 300 B.C. From Gebel Barkal. The piece incorporates a djed-pillar, a was-sceptre and a figure of the god Heh, personification of everlastingness, within the form of the ankh-sign.

Combination of ankh, djed and was-scepter forming a cross

Genre: 700 - 300 B.C.

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