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Amulets: plants

Plants as amulets are especially popular in the Amarna Period, it is not easy to distinguish between 'religious' amulets and 'aesthetic' jewellery.

wadj column (papyrus)					sometimes found in the New Kingdom (most often in a royal context), very common in the Twenty-second to Twenty-fifth Dynasty, attested till the Ptolemaic Period
lotus flower					lotus blossom as amulets appear sporadically in all periods;
grapes		a round type		underside flat	Amarna Period and 19th Dynasty. The amuletic meaning is to be seen in the connection with wine
cornflower					mainly Amarna period and shortly after; some examples from the Late Period

datings are according: Müller-Winkler 1987: 247-289