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LOT 0428
Egyptian Faience Amulet Collection
LATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C. AND LATER
5/8 - 1 in. (18.92 grams total, 15-26 mm).
Including four seated cats, a Horus falcon, a Bes head, a standing baboon, male genitalia, a trussed duck, and other amuletic types. [11]
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Literature
Cf. Reisner, G.A., Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, Nos.12528-13595, Vol. II, Amulets, Cairo, 1958, pl. XXII (no. 12627), for a similar cat amulet; Petrie, W.M.F., Amulets. Illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University College, London, 1914, pl. XXXIV c-e, for Bes head amulets
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