An Egyptian Diorite Heart Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Royal Borowski P-39 & P-40 (pg

Borowski P-39 & P-40 (pg 201)

A rare example

particularly his striking wide black eyes

The plummet (or plumb-line) looks like a pyramid with feet and was most often carved from dark-colored stone

Inside the bowl

An Egyptian Diorite Heart Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Royal Borowski P-39 & P-40 (pgTo 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