EGYPTIAN FAIENCE AMULETS

Late to Ptolemaic Period, Ca. 664 - 30 BC.
A pair of Egyptian faience amulets depicting standing Anubis and the Eye of Horus. Funerary amulets were frequently crafted in the likeness of deities and associated with safeguarding of mummified remains. For similar see MET Museum Accession Number: 04.2.151.
Size: 14-32mm x 8-15mm; Weight: 2.7g
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.