EGYPTIAN DUCK AMULET

Late to Ptolemaic Period, Ca. 664 - 30 BC.
A Late Period faience duck amulet. Amulets representing animals were attributed to a deity: a hawk for Ra, the Sun God, a lion for Sakhmi, the War Goddess, a ram for Khnum and a cat for Bast. For similar see: Christie's, Live auction 3798, Antiquities, Lot. 176.
Size: 14mm x 7mm; Weight: 0.3g
Provenance: Property of a London gallery; previously in a collection of a North London gentleman; formerly in a collection of Mrs B. Ellison, a deceased former member of the Egyptian Exploration Fund, bought from the 1940s, Cairo and London.