Royal-Athena Galleries, Art of the Ancient World, Volume XXVI - 2015

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223 EGYPTIAN FAIENCE TRIAD AMULET OF Egyptian Faience Amulets ISIS, HORUS, NEPTHYS Finely detailed. XXVIth Dynasty, 664-525 BC. H. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired from C. Ede, London, September 1982. Cf similar amulet in the MMA, ex J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917, accession number: 17.194.2444 224 EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE FAIENCE AMULET OF BES wearing a plumed headdress, with black details. Choice. Early Ptolemaic Period, ca. 300 BC. H. 2 in. (5.1 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired from R. Gill, London, in December 1993. 225 EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE AMULET OF KHNUM, the ram-headed creator god who made man on the potter's wheel. Late Dynastic Period, 664-343 BC. H. 1 1/2 in. (6.4 cm.) Ex collection of Mme. R.S., Paris, acquired in the 1960s; Drouot, Paris, April 2004. 226 EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE FAIENCE AMULET OF PATAIKOS wearing a ram-horned uraeus crown surmounted by double plumes and a sun disc. XXI-XXVth Dynasty, 1069-664 BC. H. 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm.) Ex collection of Edouard Louis Joseph, Baron Empain (1852-1929), France; J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired at Christie’s, London, in April 2011. 227 EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE AMULET OF PATAIKOS standing on two crocodiles, holding snakes, the head commanded by a scarab. In the back a winged goddess wearing a solar disc, and on the sides stand the goddesses Isis and Nephtys. Choice. Late Period, 664-30 BC. H. 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm.) Ex collection of John Cherones, New York, 1970s.

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