LARGE EGYPTIAN FAIENCE AMULET OF ISIS LACTANS WITH HORUS

Ca. 1070 - 900 BC A beautiful bright green faience amulet depicting Isis nursing Horus, her posthumous son with the god Osiris. The goddess, identified by the throne hieroglyph on her head, sits on a block seat adorned with black glaze. A folded cloth is shown covering her legs until the ankles. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession Number: 2021.41.31.
Size: 75mm x 38mm; Weight: 31g
Provenance: Property of a London gallery; previously in a collection of a North London gentleman; formerly in a collection of Mrs B. Ellison, a deceased former member of the Egyptian Exploration Fund, bought from the 1940s, Cairo and London.

Estimate: GBP 150 - 300