EGYPTIAN FAIENCE ISIS AND HORUS AMULET Late Period, Ca. 664 - 332 BC. A faience amulet of Isis seated on a throne, holding the infant Horus on her lap. The goddess wears a tripartite wig and a crown consisting of a sun disc flanked by cow’s horns. The rear of the amulet is modelled with a vertical back-pillar extending from the base to the top of the crown, and a horizontal perforation is placed behind her head. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 74.51.4476. Size: 53mm x 19mm; 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.