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An Egyptian pale green faience triad plaque amulet image 1
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The Resandro Collection of Ancient Art (Lots 14-49)
Lot 36*

An Egyptian pale green faience triad plaque amulet

22 November – 9 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian pale green faience triad plaque amulet

Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.
4.2cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Resandro collection, Europe, primarily formed late 1960s-1997 (R-612 (HA 13)).

Published:
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p.194, no. R-612.

Nude Horus is depicted as a child and is shown being protected by, and holding the hands of, his mother Isis and aunt Nephthys. This plaque also represents part of the Osiride myth of the murder and resurrection of Osiris and the birth and vengeance of his son Horus, both of them nurtured and protected by Isis and Nephthys. For the type, see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 26.7.890.

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