Lovely inscribed pewter ankh. Comes complete on a neckcord and with a descriptive card. About 1 1/2 inches long and 5/8 inches wide.
The Ankh is one of the most important, enduring and popular symbols of the ancient world. The word means life in the language of the Nile region. Ankhs were carried as amulets against sickness, danger and death. Ankhs were used in Egyptian art in all sorts of ways. Pictures of the sun were made with ankhs at the end of the sun beams (in depictions of the Aten indicating the Sun as the Giver of Life - many other Gods were depicted carrying the Ankh in their left hand for the same meaning).
In modern times, the Ankh has been adapted by Goths as a symbol of the eternal life of Vampires as well as by Pagans and Christians as a symbol of God without the negative connections of cruxifiction.
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