LARGE EGYPTIAN FAIENCE THOTH AMULET Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, Ca. 664 - 30 BC. A faience amulet of Thoth depicted striding with arms held at his sides, wearing a kilt and a tripartite wig, with the head of an ibis. The figure is rendered with a muscular torso, defined limbs, and a back pillar running from the head to the base. A suspension hole is pierced horizontally through the back. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 15.43.324. Size: 68mm x 20mm; Weight: 16g 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.