A group of glazed composition amulets, including a hybrid cippus amulet showing Ptaichos standing on two crocodiles, with a scarab on the head, flanked by Isis and Nephthys, the reverse showing a winged goddess wearing a sun disc, repaired and with damage -- 2 1/8in. (5.4cm.) high; the upper part of Isis surmounted by the hieroglyph for both her name and 'throne' -- 2 1/8in. (5.4cm.) high; figures of Bes with plumed headdress, Anubis, Thoth, Shu; a seated cat with four kittens around her front legs, suspension loop above, repaired -- 1 7/8in. (4.8cm.) high max.; four wedjat-eye amulets -- 1½in. (3.8cm.) across max.; and a group of glazed fragments, Late Period/Ptolemaic, 7th-1st Century B.C.(a lot)

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A group of glazed composition amulets, including a hybrid cippus amulet showing Ptaichos standing on two crocodiles, with a scarab on the head, flanked by Isis and Nephthys, the reverse showing a winged goddess wearing a sun disc, repaired and with damage -- 2 1/8in. (5.4cm.) high; the upper part of Isis surmounted by the hieroglyph for both her name and 'throne' -- 2 1/8in. (5.4cm.) high; figures of Bes with plumed headdress, Anubis, Thoth, Shu; a seated cat with four kittens around her front legs, suspension loop above, repaired -- 1 7/8in. (4.8cm.) high max.; four wedjat-eye amulets -- 1½in. (3.8cm.) across max.; and a group of glazed fragments, Late Period/Ptolemaic, 7th-1st Century B.C.(a lot)

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