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On 02/20/2018 08:00 AM, Brooklyn Museum wrote:
🔵 Here's a little BLUESDAY inspiration from our Egyptian art...
🔵 Here's a little BLUESDAY inspiration from our Egyptian art collection, currently on view in Infinite Blue.
The ancient Egyptians believed that the gods had skin of gold and hair of lapis lazuli; they also believed that the soul became a god upon death. This amulet, a human-headed bird with skin of gold and feathers of lapis, turquoise, and steatite, represents this part of the soul, known as the ba.
Amulet in the Form of a Ba as Human-Headed Bird, 305-30 B.C.E. Gold, lapis lazuli, turquoise, steatite, 1 ¼ x 2 11/16 x 3/8 in. (3.1 x 6.8 x 0.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.804E. Creative Commons-BY
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