EGYPTIAN FAIENCE BABOON AMULET Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, Ca. 664 - 30 BC. A faience amulet modelled in the form of a squatting baboon seated on a rectangular base. The figure is depicted with a ridged mane, crosshatched upper body, and arms resting on bent knees. A suspension loop is pierced horizontally at the top. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 44.4.41. Size: 44mm x 23mm; Weight: 13g Provenance: Property of a London gallery; previously in a collection of a North London gentleman; formerly in a collection of Mrs B. Ellison, a deceased former member of the Egyptian Exploration Fund, bought from the 1940s, Cairo and London. Reviewed by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.