An Egyptian Alabaster Sun Disc Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Jewelry - Pendants Its intense blue color evoked

Its intense blue color evoked the heavens and was associated with divinity

and acquired from the Metropolitan Museum of Art by deaccession

It features a hand-polished agate stone encased in intricate gold latticework

Relief-decorated pottery became more popular than painted pottery during the Hellenistic period

and body paint design associated with this dreaming

An Egyptian Alabaster Sun Disc Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Jewelry - Pendants Its intense blue color evokedAkhet sun on horizon amulets, such as this finely carved example, symbolize the eastern horizon with the rising sun emerging between two hills. Closely associated with rebirth, renewal, and the daily triumph of light over darkness, the motif held profound funerary significance in ancient Egyptian belief. By the Late Period, these amulets were commonly placed among burial assemblages to link the deceased with the regenerative power of the newly risen