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LOT 0506

Egyptian Faience Amulet Collection

1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

5/8 - 1 1/4 in. (6.5 grams total, 16-30 mm).

Comprising: an amuletic bead consisting of a row of seven Taweret figures on a rectangular base, pierced longitudinally; a seated ibis before a diminutive figure of Maat on a tongue-shaped base; a cippus amulet composed of the figure of Pataikos standing on two crocodiles, with two hawks perched on his shoulders, a scarab on his head, flanked by the figures of Isis and Nephthys, and on the back, a winged goddess standing on the crocodiles' tails. [3]

Provenance

Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. Reisner, G.A., Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, Nos.12528-13595, Vol. II, Amulets, Cairo, 1958, pls. IX, XXV, for beads composed of multiple divine figures; Andrews, C., Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, 1994, p.24, Fig. 21f, for a seated ibis amulet, and pp. 37-39, Figs. 34-35, for examples and discussion of the cippus-type amulet.

CONDITION

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LOT 0506

Egyptian Faience Amulet Collection

Estimate £500 - 700€580 - 810 (for guidance only)$680 - 950 (for guidance only)

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