Amulets: parts of mammals

The hieroglyphic value in writing, rather than the form, is often the key to the meaning of these amulets, for example nefer 'beautiful'; zema 'unite';

ib - heart						a few examples belong to the New Kingdom, most early datable examples to the Twenty-first Dynasty, then popular in the Late Period
nefer						attested in the New Kingdom
zema						attested in the Twenty-sixth Dynasty

datings: Müller-Winkler 1987: 209-246