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LOT 0025
Egyptian Blue Glazed Faience Pectoral
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
1 3/4 in. (20 grams, 45 mm).
Large rectangular shrine-shaped pectoral with subtle cavetto cornice top; obverse with black-painted Anubis reclining on a low pedestal, the reverse with two stylised tyet flanking a djed pillar; four piercings through the rear edge.
ProvenanceFrom a 20th century UK collection.
LiteratureCf. Reisner, G.A., Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, Nos.5218-6000 et 12001-12527, Vol. I, Amulets, Cairo, 1907, pl. XIII, no. 12206, for a pectoral with the same decorative design on both faces.
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