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Description

A good-sized turquoise faience amulet of the god Faience amulet of Thoth as an ibis. The god is shown striding forward, hands to his sides and standing on an oblong base, a piercing through the headdress for suspension. Supplied with Perspex display stand.

Period: Late Dynastic–Ptolemaic: Date: 664–30 B.C.

Very Fine condition complete and intact.
Height 5.7 cms (2.24 ins).

Ex JCM personal collection purchased from Coincraft (opposite the British Museum) in 1990’s.

Thoth was the god associated with divine knowledge and writing. He was associated with order and justice and was an advisor as well as a mediator to the Gods. The ibis was one manifestation of Thoth, the other being as a baboon.

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