EGYPTIAN FAIENCE TAWERET AMULET

Third Intermediate Period, Ca. 1069 - 664 BC. A bright blue-green faience amulet of the goddess Taweret standing on a small rectangular base. The figure has a hippopotamus head with a protruding snout, and a human-shaped, pregnant body with pendulous breasts. A ridged crocodile tail runs down the back. A suspension hole is set above the head. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 74.51.4486. Size: 39mm x 13mm; Weight: 6g 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.