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LOT 0492
Egyptian Blue Faience Amulet Representing Taweret
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
2 in. (5.18 grams, 52 mm).
Modelled standing on a rectangular base in characteristic hippopotamus-headed form with a dorsal pillar, pierced for suspension at the rear of the tall two-feather headdress.
Provenance
Private collection, Carouge, Switzerland, assembled in the 1980s-1990s.
Thence by descent to the collection of Mr S.P., since 2020.
Literature
Cf. Petrie, W.M.F., Amulets. Illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University College, London, 1914, pl. XL, 236q, for a similar Taweret with headdress.
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