Egyptian Stone and Faience Amulet Group. Late Period-Roman Period, circa 664 B.C.-100 A.D. Comprising: a seated figure of Isis suckling infant Horus on her lap, the goddess crowned with large cow horns flanking a solar disc, pierced behind the head; a mummiform Osiris-Canopus amulet wearing a nemes headdress and plain dorsal pillar, a winged scarab with solar disc above at the base of the figure; a kneeling Shu amulet, his arms raised above his head holding a large solar disc, pierced through the dorsal pillar. Cf. Petrie, W.M.F., Amulets. Illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University College, London, 1914, pl. XXVIII, 158n, for a similar Osiris-Canopus amulet in bronze; Petrie, W.M.F., Amulets. Illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University College, London, 1914, pl. XXVId and XXVIe, for similar Isis lactans amulets; Daressy, G., Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire N° 38001-39384 Statues de divinités, Cairo, 1906, pl. VIII, no. 38.229, for a Shu of similar form. 6.47 grams total, 18-25 mm (3/4 - 1 in.). [3] (For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price.)

Ex Prof. Dr Emil Vogt (1906-1974), The Former Director of the Swiss National Museum, Zürich, in his collection before 1970. with Galerie Rhéa, Zurich, Switzerland. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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