.jpg?w=1)
MIDDLE KINGDOM TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 2040-30 B.C.
Details
TWENTY-EIGHT EGYPTIAN AMULETS
Middle Kingdom to Ptolemaic Period, 2040-30 B.C.
Including seventeen turquoise faience, two with an enthroned Isis with the infant Horus, two ibis-headed figures of Thoth, three baboons, one the head of Hapy, the other two seated, a standing Anubis, a double Ba-Bird figure, a lion-headed god, a Thoeris figure,, a standing dwarf, a hare on an integral base, a lotus flower, a crouching man with the hand held to the face, a hedgehog with hieroglyphs on the underside, and an erotica; three frogs, two in faience one in granite; two cats, one of faience and one of bronze; two of carnelian, one recumbant lion on an integral plinth with once inalid eyes, and a recumbant hippopotamus; a chalcedony falcon; and three of brilliant blue faience, including a recumbant ram on an integral plinth, a head of a panther, and an Amarna period figure
1¾ in. (4.4 cm) for the tallest (28)
Middle Kingdom to Ptolemaic Period, 2040-30 B.C.
Including seventeen turquoise faience, two with an enthroned Isis with the infant Horus, two ibis-headed figures of Thoth, three baboons, one the head of Hapy, the other two seated, a standing Anubis, a double Ba-Bird figure, a lion-headed god, a Thoeris figure,, a standing dwarf, a hare on an integral base, a lotus flower, a crouching man with the hand held to the face, a hedgehog with hieroglyphs on the underside, and an erotica; three frogs, two in faience one in granite; two cats, one of faience and one of bronze; two of carnelian, one recumbant lion on an integral plinth with once inalid eyes, and a recumbant hippopotamus; a chalcedony falcon; and three of brilliant blue faience, including a recumbant ram on an integral plinth, a head of a panther, and an Amarna period figure
1¾ in. (4.4 cm) for the tallest (28)
Provenance
Crescent Gallery, Tokyo