The Amulet of the Papyrus Scepter

The Amulet of the Papyrus Scepter

The Amulet of the Papyrus Scepter was intended to give the gone vigour and renewal of youth; it was made of mother-of-emerald, or of light green or blue porcelain, and, when the words of the "CLIXth" Chapter of the (Book of the Dead) had been told over it, it was placed on his neck on the sidereal day of the funeral. In the 26th dynasty and earlier it seems as if the amulet symbolise the power of Isis, who come it from her father, the husband of Renenet, the goddess of galore harvests and food. At an smaller period, judgment from the text of the "CLXth Chapter", the amulet is put by the god Thoth into the hands of the deceased, who says:

"It is in sound state, and I am in sound land; it is not separated, and I am not wounded; it is not worn wide, and I am not worn wide".