Amuletic Papyrus

Third Intermediate Period

ca. 1070–712 B.C.

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 130

This long and narrow strip of papyrus is inscribed with an oracular text intended to keep its owner safe and well. In seventy lines of text, the gods Isis and Horus promise to protect Ankheseniset, wife of Djedkhonsu, from every illness and misfortune and to ward off any dangerous entity that might try to harm her. After being rolled and tied with a thread, such papyri would be probably placed within a protective container and worn around the neck with a cord.

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Provenance

Title: Amuletic Papyrus
Period: Third Intermediate Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 21–22
Date: ca. 1070–712 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt
Medium: Papyrus, ink
Dimensions: L. 91.5 × W. 6.1 cm (36 × 2 3/8 in.); Frame: H. 99.3 × W. 13 cm (39 1/8 × 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Lucy Chauncey, 1910
Object Number: 10.53
Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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