Egyptian Faience Amulet Representing Taweret

LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.

2 in. (10.3 grams, 52 mm).

Modelled in the round on a rectangular base and with a dorsal pillar pierced at the shoulder, the goddess is depicted in hippopotamus form with human arms.

Provenance

Private collection, Carouge, Switzerland, assembled in the 1980s-1990s.
Thence by descent to the collection of Mr S.P., since 2020.

Literature

Cf. Loffet, H.C., Collections égyptiennes du Museum Emmanuel Liais de Cherbourg Octeville, Paris, 2007, p. 60, no. 63, for a similar example.

CONDITION

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