Djed pillar
Unknown Artist
Starting in the later Late Period and continuing through the Ptolemaic Period, a type of glass amulet cast by pressing the glass into a shallow open mold appears. The back was left rough, and the amulets may look ragged because glass overflowed the mold around the edges. The earlier amulets are monochrome, bi- or multicolor amulets supplement the repertoire during the Ptolemaic Period.
Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
525-30 BC
Blue glass
1.8 x 0.6in
17.194.2527
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