An Egyptian Feldspar Writing Tablet Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Jewelry - Rings Of light green-yellow faience

Of light green-yellow faience

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An Egyptian Feldspar Writing Tablet Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Jewelry - Rings Of light green-yellow faienceAmulets 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