Symbolism and meaning of solar heart amulets

• Autor(es): Sousa, Rogério
• Data: 2012
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/63859
• Origem: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Assunto(s): História do Egito; Egiptologia; Amuleto - Egito; Coração - Simbologia
• Tipo de Documento: Livro
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

We present in this study a brief description of the main morphological and symbolic features of the solar heart amulet. Under this designation we consider the heart amulets that present a sun disk over the top of the object. Starting with a morphological description of these artefacts, we will also consider in this article the study of the artistic rendering of this particular type of heart amulets as a way to clarify its symbolism.