LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: amulet

Title: Amulet with a Lamashtu demon Period: Neo-Babylonian Date: 7th-6th Century BC Geography: Mesopotamia Medium: Limestone Dimensions: 1.97 x 2.44 x 0.55 in. (5 x 6.2 x 1.4 cm) Classification: Stone-Ornament, Inscribed Credit Line: Purchase, 1886 Accession Number: 86.11.2 On View Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/ancien... and Lamashtu, a female leonine demon with talons and blood-stained paws, was thought to usher in disease and death upon hot winds from the west. On the limestone amulet, she is shown suckling a pig and a dog and grasping double-headed snakes. While her malevolence was directed primarily against pregnant women and babies, the obsidian amulet bears a prayer that reads, "Do not approach the sick man." Each amulet depicts ceremonial objects and offerings to appease the demon: a lamp, legs of lamb, a shoe, a comb, and a spindle. Images of Pazuzu were used to counteract Lamashtu and drive her back into the underworld. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Title: Amulet with a Lamashtu demon Date: early 1st Millennium BC Geography: Mesopotamia or Iran Medium: Obsidian Dimensions: 2.26 x 1.83 in. (5.74 x 4.65 cm) Classification: Stone-Ornament, Inscribed Credit Line: Purchase, James N. Spear Gift, 1984 Accession Number: 1984.348 On View Text from: www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/all/am... and Lamashtu, a female leonine demon with talons and blood-stained paws, was thought to usher in disease and death upon hot winds from the west. On the limestone amulet, she is shown suckling a pig and a dog and grasping double-headed snakes. While her malevolence was directed primarily against pregnant women and babies, the obsidian amulet bears a prayer that reads, "Do not approach the sick man." Each amulet depicts ceremonial objects and offerings to appease the demon: a lamp, legs of lamb, a shoe, a comb, and a spindle. Images of Pazuzu were used to counteract Lamashtu and drive her back into the underworld. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Ram's Head Amulet Bi-chrome banded jasper Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty XXV, circa 775-653 BC, or later Reportedly from Memphis Accession # 54.198 This type of amulet, a symbol of the god Amun, originated with the Kushite kings who ruled Egypt as Dynasty XXV. Their foreheads, like this ram's head, were often adorned with two cobras rather than the single cobra common on the heads of Egyptian kings. An exceptionally fine carving in hard stone, this amulet has links between the horns and head that may reflect a metal prototype. Text from the Brooklyn Museum label.

Oxyrhynchus Fish Amulet Bronze length, 0.12 meter Provenance uncertain, possibly Thebes (in Upper Egypt) Ptolemaic Period, 4th century BC # 54-33-6 This grey-colored fish (Marymus kannume) was regarded as a form of the goddess Hathor. It figures in the later version of the Osirus legend as the creature which swallowed the phallus of the dismembered king. Text from the U. Penn. Museum label.