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An Egyptian turquoise glazed composition Pataikos cippus amulet

1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian turquoise glazed composition Pataikos cippus amulet
Late Period, 26th Dynasty, circa 664-525 B.C.
Depicting the dwarf god Pataikos standing on a two-tiered plinth, the upper tier formed of confronting crocodiles, the god with a scarab on his head and a falcon on each shoulder, holding a serpent in each hand, flanked by small standing figures of Isis and Nephthys, a figure of another goddess incised on the back support, wearing horns and sun disc, ribbed suspension loop above, 7.6cm high

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Provenance:
Frederick George Hilton Price collection (1842-1909) collection, London.
Private collection, France.
with Arteas Gallery, Paris.
Private collection, Europe, acquired April 2005.

Published:
A Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of F.G. Hilton Price Dir. S.A., 1897, no. 2476.
C.A.R. Andrews and J. van Dijk (eds), Objects for Eternity: Egyptian Antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection, Mainz, 2006, p. 219-220, no. 3.29.

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