A large collection of glazed composition amulets including two winged scarabs -- 5½in. (14cm.) long max., a group of fourteen diorite and green and blue glazed composition wedjat-eyes, including a double eye -- 1 7/8in. (4.8cm.) long max., three glazed composition wadj (papyrus)-columns -- 1 7/8in. (4.8cm.) high max., a glazed composition white and red crown of Upper and Lower Egypt -- 2.3cm. high max., two stone heart amulets -- 2cm. high max., and a group of amuletic deities including three figures of Tueris -- 1 5/8in. (4.1cm.) high max., all Late Period-Ptolemaic, circa 6th-1st Century B.C.(a lot)

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A large collection of glazed composition amulets including two winged scarabs -- 5½in. (14cm.) long max., a group of fourteen diorite and green and blue glazed composition wedjat-eyes, including a double eye -- 1 7/8in. (4.8cm.) long max., three glazed composition wadj (papyrus)-columns -- 1 7/8in. (4.8cm.) high max., a glazed composition white and red crown of Upper and Lower Egypt -- 2.3cm. high max., two stone heart amulets -- 2cm. high max., and a group of amuletic deities including three figures of Tueris -- 1 5/8in. (4.1cm.) high max., all Late Period-Ptolemaic, circa 6th-1st Century B.C.(a lot)

Lot Essay

Attached to board, with handwritten labels beneath each amulet. A group of lecture notes on Egyptian amulets accompany this collection

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