Heart Amulet
Heart Amulet
Place of OriginEgypt
DateNew Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, reigns of Amenhotep III to Akhenaten, about 1400 to 1350 B.C
DimensionsH: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); W: 5/8 in. (1.7 cm); Depth: 1/4 in. (0.7 cm)
MediumGlass; core-fused polychrome, rod formed, applied collar, lugs, and marvered threads.
ClassificationGlass
Object number
1980.651
Not on View
DescriptionHeart amulet. Opaque medium blue ground with opaque yellow decoration. Heart-shaped, with two flattened but slightly convex sides; two tiny upright lugs, one on either side; at the top, an opaque yellow collar. A longitudinal threadhole pierces the amulet. Several marvered opaque yellow threads tooled into a chevron pattern with rounded ends.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 22, p. 64, repr. (col.) p. 43.New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, reigns of Amenhotep III to Akhenaten, about 1400 to 1350 B.C
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Probably 8th century BCE
7th century BCE
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, About 1412-1350 BCE
Mid-fourteenth to late thirteenth century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
18th Dynasty, about 1400-1350 BCE
New Kingdom, late 18th or 19th Dynasty, about 1400-1225 BCE
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