EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SEKHMET. Ca. 300 BC. A turquoise glazed faience amulet depicting goddess Sekhmet standing on an integral base. She is portrayed with a lioness head and a slender body. The amulet has a flat back with a vertical column of incised hieroglyphs and it is perforated at the upper section for suspension. Reviewed by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 1980,1214.15557. Size: 70mm x 25mm; Weight: 18.38g Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.