E31

Egyptian unusual shaped amulet

£40

A blue glazed faience amulet of roughly rectangular form with waisted sides. Each corner of the front surface is decorated with a black glazed blob.

Presumably this is a stylised and simplified representation of a quadruple Eye of Horus amulet. The amulet is pierced twice horizontally, perhaps to form part of a double-stranded necklace.

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 730-332 BC.

Intact.

Size: 1.3 x 1.1 cms

Provenance: Ex. Private collection, Essex, UK. Acquired before c. 1970.