Egyptian Faience Amulet and Scarab Group

LATE-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-30 B.C.

1/2 - 1 1/8 in. (19.8 grams total, 15-29 mm).

Comprising: a Bes head amulet, a frog amulet, a wedjat, an amuletic plaque, and two scarabs. [6]

Provenance

From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

Literature

Cf. Tinius, I., Altägypten in Braunschweig. Die Sammlungen des Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museums und des Städtischen Museums, Wiesbaden, 2011, p. 161, no. 304, for comparable wedjat-eye amulet; Petrie, W.M.F., Amulets. Illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University College, London, 1914, pl. XXXIV, nos. 189c-d, for similar Bes head amulets.

CONDITION

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