New Kingdom-Roman Period, circa 1550 B.C.-100 A.D.
Comprising a white faience amulet of the crown of Upper Egypt, 2.6cm high; a blue glass and green faience poppy seed, 1.7cm high; a small turquoise glass profile head inlay with details in black, 7mm high; a miniature turquoise faience jug with Bes face, 1.7cm high; a cream faience amulet of Bes with a figure of Maat inscribed on the underside, 2cm high; a turquoise faience aegis with the head of Mut, 2.4cm high; a green and blue faience amulet of a dog with raised paw, 1.5cm high; and a green and blue faience phallic amulet, 1.8cm high (9)

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Provenance:
Resandro Collection, Europe, primarily formed late 1960s-1997 (R-230 (HA 62), R-589 (HA 43), R-236 (HA 44), R-507 (HA 64), R-557 (HA 97), R-536 (HA 129), R-744 (HA 123), R-748 (HA 126)).

Published:
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012.

For examples of lotus petal-shaped beads from royal necklaces for Amenhotep III, and now in the Louvre, Paris and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, see A. Kozloff, Egypt's Dazzling Sun, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992, p.447, no.126.

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