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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE NEFERTUM AMULET
Lot 126

AN EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE NEFERTUM AMULET

LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.

Closed26 April 2012

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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE NEFERTUM AMULET
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
The striding god wearing lotus headdress surmounted by double ostrich plumes, hands clenched by his side, wearing shendyet-kilt, standing on a crouching lion, on integral rectangular base, pierced for suspension
3½ in. (8.9 cm.) high

with Ariadne Galleries, New York, (Ancient Jewellery, 9 December 1983, no. 104).

Specialist note

According to C. Andrews in Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, 1994, p. 18-19, 'An unusual Late Dynastic [amulet] type in well-modelled glazed composition depicts the god standing on the back of a couchant or walking lion, his animal manifestation.'