COLLECTION OF EGYPTIAN FAIENCE DEITIES AMULETS

Ca. 1550 - 30 BC. A collection of five faience amulets, including a seated Isis depicted with a tall headdress and holding baby Horus against her chest, Anubis with a jackal head and upright ears, Pataikos shown as a squatting dwarf figure with muscular limbs, Taweret represented as a pregnant hippopotamus and Khnum depicted with a ram’s head. Reviewed by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition. For similar see: Andrews C., Amulets of Ancient Egypt, British Museum Press, cat. 36, 20, 23; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 74.51.4463, 74.51.4486. Size: 38-44mm x 11-19mm; Weight: 24g Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. European collection formed since the 1970s.