Isis Amulet with Chain

This amulet of General Wendjebauendjed is in the shape of a standing figure of Isis. She is shown here as a woman with two horns over her head flanking the solar disk.

Isis is wearing a tripartite wig with a protective uraeus, or royal cobra, on the forehead. She is wearing a tight dress, a collar, and bracelets. It seems that she was holding the Shen sign.



Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, reign of Psusennes I, ca. 1047-1001 BC, from tomb NRT III, Tanis. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 87716