The amulet of the scarab has been found in Egypt in untold thousands, and the varieties are exceedingly numerous. They are made of green basalt, green granite, limestone, green marble, blue paste, blue glass, purple, blue and green glazed porcelain, etc.; and the words of power are usually cut in outline on the base.
Dulcimer, stringed musical instrument, a version of the psaltery in which the strings are beaten with small hammers rather than plucked.
What is a hammered dulcimer? The hammered dulcimer is the ancestor of the piano, a stringed instrument with many strings; to get different pitches the player moves from one string course to another and strikes them with small wooden hammers, much as the felt-covered hammers inside a piano strike the strings when the pianist presses the keys.