AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE PECTORAL
AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE PECTORAL
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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE PECTORAL

NEW KINGDOM, 19TH DYNASTY, 1295-1069 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE PECTORAL
NEW KINGDOM, 19TH DYNASTY, 1295-1069 B.C.
4 1⁄8 in. (10.4 cm.) long
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 18 May 1981, lot 255.
Private Collection, U.K., acquired 1980s-1990s.
Art Market, London.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2021.

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Lot Essay

The image of the jackal god Anubis atop his shrine was significant in the protection of the deceased, as was the wadjet-eye, associated with Horus.  Both appear on the obverse of this pylon-shaped pectoral, while the reverse features the djed-pillar and tyet-amulet, symbolic of Osiris and Isis. For a similar example but in yellow and blue faience, now in the British Museum, see no. 161 in F.D. Friedman, ed. Gifts of the Nile, Ancient Egyptian Faience.

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