COLLECTION OF EGYPTIAN FAIENCE DEITIES AMULETS. Ca. 1550 - 30 BC. A collection of five faience amulets including Anubis, depicted with a jackal head and upright ears, Thoth with an ibis head, seated Isis suckling Horus and two amulets of Taweret show the goddess as a pregnant hippopotamus. The amulets are rendered in shades of pale blue-green faience. Reviewed by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition. For similar see: Andrews C., Amulets of Ancient Egypt, British Museum Press. Cat. 20, 23; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 74.51.4486, 74.51.4476. Size: 36-41mm x 13-17mm; Weight: 24g Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. European collection formed since the 1970s.