Amulet of a Djed Pillar

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Amulet of a Djed Pillar

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Date
Third Intermediate Period–Ptolemaic Period (about 1069–30 BCE)
Medium
Faience
Culture
Egypt
Department
Arts of Africa
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
135863

Columns with crossbars at their top represent the stylized backbone of the god Osiris, the main god of the afterlife. Known as djed columns, the backbone was associated with stability, hence with continued life.

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Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson, Henry H. Getty, and Norman W. Harris
Provenance
Émile Brugsch (1842-1930), Bulaq Museum and Egyptian Antiquities Service, Cairo; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1892; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson, 1892.

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