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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7326424, member: 110350&quot;]The recent questions and discussions in another thread about artifacts reminded me of this amulet, which I purchased last month but have never posted before. It&#039;s my first and only artifact that was formerly on display at a museum (in Atlanta), where it was on loan for a number of years. Despite the feet being broken off, I think the details are extremely well-preserved.</p><p><br /></p><p>Egypt, pale green faience amulet of Ptah, depicted wearing skull cap, straight false beard, broad collar, body with mummiform shape, hands emerging to grasp large <i>was</i>-scepter, a symbol of power &amp; dominion (long, straight staff with forked lower end &amp; stylized jackal head on top with eye visible); pierced for suspension; pillar in back; missing feet; Late Period, 722-322 BCE. 46 mm. high. <i>Purchased 2021, T. Squintlee Gallery, Bristow, VA (Richard Banks). Ex. Sands of Time Ancient Art, Wash, DC, purchased by R. Banks 5/09/2015 ; previously on loan by private NY collector to Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta GA, 1998-2015 (Loan # L1998.62.44) ; originally purchased as part of group lot at Sotheby’s auction in 1998. [I have not yet determined which auction or lot number.]* </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]1280195[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1280260[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1280261[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1280262[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1280263[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>On display at the Carlos Museum at Emory:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1280200[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1280203[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In group photo of wall display at museum, top row, second from left;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1280202[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>* From Ptah article in Wikipedia: Ptah &quot;is an ancient Egyptian deity, the god of craftsmen and architects. In the triad of Memphis, he is the husband of Sekhmet and the father of Nefertem. He was also regarded as the father of the sage Imhotep. . . . Ptah is an Egyptian creator god who existed before all other things and, by his will, thought the world into existence. It was first conceived by Thought, and realized by the Word: Ptah conceives the world by the thought of his heart and gives life through the magic of his Word. . . .</p><p>Ptah is generally represented in the guise of a man with green skin, contained in a shroud sticking to the skin, wearing the divine beard, and holding a sceptre combining three powerful symbols of ancient Egyptian religion: The Was sceptre,</p><p>The sign of life, Ankh, The Djed pillar. These three combined symbols indicate the three creative powers of the god: power (was), life (ankh) and stability (djed).&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Also from Wikipedia: &quot;Gradually he formed with Osiris a new deity called Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. Statuettes representing the human form, the half-human, half-hawk form, or simply the pure falcon form of the new deity began to be systematically placed in tombs to accompany and protect the dead on their journey to the West.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>My Roman Alexandrian coin of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris:</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 12 (127/128 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from rear, ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ - ΤΡΑΙ&nbsp; ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹƐΒ / Rev. Mummiform Ptah-Sokar-Osiris* standing right, wearing solar disk as headdress, holding <i>was </i>scepter tipped with jackal head, L ΔWΔƐ-ΚΑΤΟΥ [= Year 12 spelled out].&nbsp; RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. III 5713 (2015); RPC III Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5713" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5713" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5713</a>,&nbsp; Emmett 883.12 [Emmett, Keith, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i> (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; BMC 16 Alexandria 637 &amp; Pl. XXIII [Pool, Reginald Stuart, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 16, Alexandria</i> (London, 1892)]; Sear RCV II 3732; Köln 982 [Geissen, A., <i>Katalog alexandrinischer Kaisermünzen</i>, <i>Köln</i>, Band II (Hadrian-Antoninus Pius) (Cologne, 1978, corrected reprint 1987)]; Dattari (Savio) 1445 [Savio, A. ed., <i>Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini</i> (Trieste, 2007)]; Milne 1259 [Milne, J., <i>A Catalogue of the Alexandrian Coins in the Ashmolean Museum</i> (Oxford, 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay); K&amp;G 32.458. 24 mm., 13.85 g., 11 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1280219[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>*From the description in the CNG Triton XXI Catalog (Staffieri Collection, Jan 9. 2018) of the example from the Dattari Collection (No. 1445), sold in the Triton XXI auction as Lot 61: The image of the Ptah-Sokar-Osiris divinity belongs to Egyptian theology, and in particular to funeral worship. It brings together three famous members of the Pharaonic Pantheon through their respective symbols: the headdress and scepter for Ptah, the solar disk for Osiris, and the mummiform wrappings for Sokar – the &quot;Lord of the Necropolis.&quot; These three associated divinities call upon the concepts of &quot;mourning&quot; and &quot;life&quot;, evoking at the same time the pain associated with death and the hope of resurrection. The main sanctuaries of Ptah, Sokar, and Osiris were at Memphis and Abydos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note that the amulet of Ptah and the coin depicting Ptah-Sokar-Osiris do bear a certain resemblance in the basic mummiform shape, the skull-cap, the <i>was</i> scepter, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post any Egyptian artifact or Roman Egyptian coin you feel like posting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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