EGYPTIAN FAIENCE MENAT COUNTERPOISE AMULET New Kingdom to Late Period, Ca. 1150 - 332 BC. A faience menat counterpoise amulet with a flat, trapezoidal upper section and rounded base. The obverse is decorated with a vertical column of hieroglyphs within a rectangular panel. Two small suspension holes are drilled at the top edge. The reverse is undecorated. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 26.7.1051. Size: 51mm x 33mm; Weight: 9g 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.