White Crown as Amulet
Description
Object Label: Living persons wore only one or a few amulets at a time, but mummies usually bear many amulets. The Ma’at amulet (no. 2) and heart scarabs (nos. 1, 3, 11), which occurred in many forms, guaranteed a successful judgment of the dead. The amulets of a hand (no. 8), lungs and a windpipe (no. 12), and wadjet-eyes (i.e., “healthy” eyes; no. 4) protected those parts of the body and also had connotations of resurrection and the unity or integrity of the mummy. The enigmatic aper amulet (no. 13) takes the form of the hieroglyph meaning “to be equipped,” perhaps in reference to the mummy’s preparation. The two crowns (nos. 5, 6) were symbols of power. The Heh insignia (no. 7), like the popular ankh-sign, denoted eternal life. Among the living, the frog (no. 9) and possibly also the hare (no. 10) suggested fertility. The amulets of the Four Sons of Horus (no. 15) perhaps served, as they did with canopic jars, to protect various organs of the body. Caption: White Crown as Amulet, ca. 664–30 B.C.E.. Faience, 1 1/8 × 1/2 × 3/8 in. (2.8 × 1.3 × 1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.580.51. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A small greenish faience amulet shaped like a vertical Egyptian White Crown (hedjet), with a weathered surface and a suspension/attachment hole near the top.
The image shows a single, small, vertically oriented amulet on a light gray background. The object appears turquoise-green to bluish-green, consistent with faience. Its form tapers slightly and has a crown-like silhouette; at the top there is a circular perforation (likely for stringing), and a dark opening/indent on one side suggests an attachment or break. The lower portion is truncated or worn, and the surface is pitted and abraded, obscuring finer details of the crown’s decoration. No clear hieroglyphs, cartouches, deity iconography, or other inscriptional text are legible in the provided image.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.580.51 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3178 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.