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Row 3: (4)-Heart amulets. Ancient Amulet Necklace of Egypt, Albert hall Museum, Jaipur Amulets of Egypt, 644-332 BC, Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur. Egyptian Gallery. Amulet of Egypt, Ancient, Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur. An amulet, also known as a good luck charm, is an object believed to confer protection upon its possessor. The "Amulets of ...
[3] [7] [4]: 67 For example, the common amulet shape the scarab beetle is the emblem of the god Khepri. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] : 67 The most common material for such amulets was a kind of ceramic known as Egyptian faience or tjehenet , but amulets were also made of stone, metal, bone, wood and gold.
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On one Lamastu amulet, a scene shows Pazuzu chasing the demoness away from her victim, [15] while another displays him destroying it. [ 24 ] On a Neo-Assyrian bronze plaque, Pazuzu's head is perched above the top of the plaque, and a smaller version of him in the scene is chasing Lamastu away down a river. [ 25 ]
A silver cornicello charm. A cornicello (Italian pronunciation: [korniˈtʃɛllo]), cornetto (Italian for 'little horn' / 'hornlet'; ), corno (Italian for 'horn"'), or corno portafortuna (Italian for 'horn that brings luck') is an Italian amulet or talisman worn to protect against the evil eye (or malocchio [maˈlɔkkjo] in Italian) and bad luck in general, and, historically, to promote ...
[2] MS 5236 is made of a thin, rectangular gold sheet of 2.8 x 9.0 x 0.1 cm, which is inscribed on one side. The ancient Greek text comprises six lines written from left to right; margins all around the text body suggest that its contents are fully preserved. The surface of the gold foil is marked by many small creases that have grown together ...
Japanese coin-like amulets on display at the Museum of Ethnography, Sweden.. Japanese numismatic charms (Japanese: 絵銭 or 画銭), also known as Japanese amulets, Japanese talismans, or simply Japanese charms, refer to a family of cash coin-like and other numismatic inspired types of charms that like the Korean and Vietnamese variants are derived from Chinese numismatic charms (also ...
Takrut (Thai: ตะกรุด) is a type of tubular amulet that originated from Thailand. It is also known as "Tangkai" in other cultures. The takrut is similar to a talisman (Arabic: طلسم / transliterated: tilasim). [1] The word Takrut, is used for both Singular and Plural, although many people do add an 's' (Takruts). However, the ...