Seshat, literally ‘the female scribe’, was the goddess of all forms of writing and notation1. In very rare glass amulets of the Ptolemaic Period she wears her multi-pointed emblem overhead and writes on a palm-rib2
White glass flat back H 5.0
© The Trustees of the
British Museum #EA59412
Blue glass, emblem broken
H 3.7, W 1.7
© 2004 Musée du Louvre/
Christian Décamps #E 3505
References
1Wilkinson R H. The complete gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt, 2003, Thames & Hudson, pp. 166-167
2Andrews C. Amulets of Ancient Egypt, 1994, Fig. 66j