An Egyptian Feldspar Writing Tablet Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Jewelry - Pendants potters on Peru’s north coast

potters on Peru’s north coast produced great numbers of ceramic bottles in the shapes of humans

Goannas are an essential food source for Aboriginal groups

Condition:  Beads are intact and in excellent ancient condition

For a related example see: Metropolitan Museum of Art

all beads are new and unworn

An Egyptian Feldspar Writing Tablet Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Jewelry - Pendants potters on Peru’s north coastAmulets 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