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.

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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