An Egyptian Diorite Heart Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Royal who was awarded the Grand

who was awarded the Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle Internationale de Paris in 1889

The teardrop-shaped head pierced longitudinally for attachment to a wooden shaft

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

She is depicted partially nude

Inside the bowl

An Egyptian Diorite Heart Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Royal who was awarded the GrandTo 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