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Three Egyptian glazed composition amulets of Nefertum, Taweret and Nephthys
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Three Egyptian glazed composition amulets of Nefertum, Taweret and Nephthys
Third Intermediate Period-Late Period, circa 1069-332 B.C.
Nefertum depicted striding forward with the left leg advanced, wearing a kilt, tripartite wig, false beard and characteristic plumed lotus-form headdress, suspension loop behind; Taweret depicted as a hippopotamus wearing characteristic headdress, standing with arms held alongside her pregnant abdomen, the lappets of her tripartite wig atop her pendulous breasts, her crocodile tail hatched, a ribbed suspension loop behind; and Nephthys depicted striding forward on her left leg, wearing a tightly-fitting sheath dress and a striated tripartite wig with uraeus, and a crown formed of the two hieroglyphic components of her name, the back pillar pierced for suspension, 6cm, 4.6cm and 4.2cm high respectively (3)

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Provenance:
Taweret: with S. Baroukh, Cairo, 1939.
Nefertum: Gréau collection, purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan before 1903 and donated to the Cincinnati Art Museum in 1917 (acc. no. 17.194.2241).
Taweret and Nefertum: Property Deaccessioned by the Cincinnati Art Museum to benefit future acquisitions of Egyptian Art; Sotheby's, New York, 14 December 1994, lot 219 (part lot).
Private collection, Europe, acquired at the above sale.

Nephthys:
Lodewick collection, Belgium, formed in the 1960s-1970s.
Dr Jan Beekmans (1927-2008) collection, Broken, Germany.
with Anubis Ancient Art, Rotterdam.
Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above October 1999.

Published:
C.A.R. Andrews and J. van Dijk (ed.), Objects for Eternity: Egyptian Antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection, Mainz, 2006, p. 230, no. 3.43 and 3.44 (Nephthys and Taweret).

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