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LARGE EGYPTIAN FAIENCE AMULET OF ISIS LACTANS WITH HORUS - Ca. 1070 - 900 BCA beautiful bright green faience amulet depicting Isis nursing Horus, her posthumous son with the god Osiris. The goddess, identified by the throne hieroglyph on her head, sits on a block seat adorned with black glaze. A folded cloth is shown covering her legs until the ankles. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession Number: 2021.41.31.Size: 75mm x 38mm; Weight: 31gProvenance: 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.