Lot 14
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AN EGYPTIAN PALE GREEN FAIENCE AMULET OF PTAICHOS
This lot is offered without reserve.
AN EGYPTIAN PALE GREEN FAIENCE AMULET OF PTAICHOS

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.

Details
AN EGYPTIAN PALE GREEN FAIENCE AMULET OF PTAICHOS
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.
2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) high
Provenance
The Groppi Collection, Switzerland; acquired in the 1920s-1940s.
The Per-Neb Collection, Part I: Highly Important Egyptian Antiquities, Christie's, London, 9 December 1992, lot 51 (unsold).
The Groppi Collection, Christie's, London, 26 April 2012, lot 93.
Exhibited
Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig; and Museum August Kestner Hannover, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, 2008.
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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
C. Loeben et al, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo! : die ägyptische Sammlung des Konditorei- und Kaffeehaus-Besitzers Achille Groppi (1890-1949), Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner, Basel/ Hannover, 2008, p. 140, no. 93.(exhibition catalogue).
As Master of Animals, Ptaichos controlled menacing crocodiles and snakes. He was the young Horus, the regenerated Osiris, protected by the two sisters Isis and Nephthys.

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