[Green stone heart amulet. From Egypt, 26th–29th Dynasty, ca. 664–30 BCE. 3 cm × 2.1 cm. (1 3/16″ × 13/16″.) Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910. Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the online collection. Click for a larger view.]
A note from the Met:
Egyptian physicians usually did not practice internal surgery, and detailed knowledge of the human body’s interior was generally limited to embalmers. Although intended to represent a human heart, this small sculpture is bovine rather than human in form.More about amulets and the heart, or ib, at this museum page.
I think it might be the Holy Hand Grenade.
ReplyDeleteI had to look it up — yes, I see a resemblance.
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