In the Third Intermediate Period ‘decrees’ on strips of papyrus issued as oracles were commonly preserved as amulets in cylindrical containers worn at the neck of the living or the dead1. A number of amulets with the head of a deity on a column are not properly identified as model decree cases
Blue glassy material of a model decree case of the goddess Mut H 4.2, W 0.9 Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22 Eton College Museum #ECM.1665-2010
Reference
1Egyptian art at Eton College, Selections from the Myers Museum, 1999. Eton College, Windsor, UK and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, p. 51, Fig. 78