Bidspirit auction | COLLECTION OF EGYPTIAN FAIENCE AMULETS

COLLECTION OF EGYPTIAN FAIENCE AMULETS - Ca. 1550 - 30 BC. A collection of 10 faience amulets, including depictions of deities, animals, and symbolic objects. Among the divine figures are Thoth, with an ibis head, Anubis with a jackal head, and Shu with his hands raised above the head. Also falcon amulet is included, a wedjat eye in blue faience and two papyrus sceptre amulets. Reviewed by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition. For similar see: Andrews C., Amulets of Ancient Egypt, British Museum Press, Cat. 83; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 10.130.1818. Size: 23-40mm x 9-21mm; Weight: 29g Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. European collection formed since the 1970s.