An Egyptian Malachite Writing Tablet Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Writing Melbourne VIC

Melbourne VIC

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1993 Awelye

An Egyptian Malachite Writing Tablet Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Writing Melbourne VICAmulets in the form of writing tablets 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, such as this example. 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