Gold Serpent Amulet
Grand Egyptian Museum #19988
This amulet is shaped like one of the basic single consonant letters, "dj", used in writing the word for the concept of eternity "djet", which is unchanging futurity
Illustration of the hieroglyph from Neal Spencer and Claire Thorne's Book of Egyptian Hieroglyphs, (Barnes and Noble books 2003), page 14
Crop of hieroglyphs from the Djed raising scene in Abydos.
