COLLECTION OF EGYPTIAN FAIENCE DEITIES AMULETS. Ca. 1550 - 30 BC. A collection of five faience amulets including Thoth with an ibis head, Taweret as a pregnant hippopotamus, ram-headed Khnum and seated Isis shown with a tall headdress and baby Horus resting against her chest. 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; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 74.51.4486. Size: 38-47mm x 15-18mm; Weight: 28g Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. European collection formed since the 1970s.