Large brown limestone heart scarab, once placed on the throat, chest or heart of the Mummy. Some were worn by the deceased on a necklace, or mounted in Gold settings as a pectoral. Heart scarabs provided the bearer with the assurance that at the final judgment as depicted in the Book of the Dead, the bearer would be found ”True of Voice” and accepted into the eternal afterlife by the God Osiris. On the top one line of hieroglyphics and Egyptian symbols and five lines of hieroglyphics and Egyptian symbols on the bottom. Unusually large and beautiful. Third Intermediate.
Egyptian antiquities are authentic historical relics and come with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Egyptian
1070 – 712 BC
3" x 2 1/4"

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