Month: February 2016

merelygifted:

 An Egyptian Pale Blue Faience Amulet of Thoth, 26th/30th Dynasty, 664-342 B.C.E.
Height 2 ¾ in. 7 cm.

The ibis-headed god striding on a rectangular base with recess, perhaps for an insertion, behind the back pillar, and wearing a pleated kilt and striated tripartite wig, a small pendant loop on the wig’s right side, a ribbed simulated suspension hole on the pillar, the head finely modeled.

http://myartblogcollection.blogspot.com/2015/11/26-ancient-egyptian-artifices-with.html