A group of green and blue glazed composition amulets

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A group of green and blue glazed composition amulets
including thirteen Sons of Horus figures: Duamutef, Qubhsenuef, Imsety, and Hapy, pierced for attachment -- 2in. (5cm.) high max.; a seated figure of Isis with Horus, crown missing -- 1¼in. (3.2cm.) high; four hawk head amulets, each surmounted by a sun disc -- 1in. (2.5cm.) high max.; a figure of a sphinx -- 1 1/8in. (2.8cm.) long; and a scarab, rev. four connecting uareii; another in steatite rev. central ankh symbol surrounded by concentric circles -- 1in. (2.6cm.) long av., all Late Period-Ptolemaic
See Colour Plate 2 for item one (24)

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