Symbolism and meaning of solar heart amulets

• Author(s): Sousa, Rogério
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/63859
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): História do Egito; Egiptologia; Amuleto - Egito; Coração - Simbologia
• Document Type: Book
• Language: English

Description

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.