A Collection of Twenty-four Faience and Stone Amulets and Scarabs, Predynastic/Late Period, circa 3500-30 B.C.

comprising a Predynastic schist amulet surmounted by addorsed birds, a steatite heart amulet incised on one side with a scarab and on the other with two herons flanking the remnants of a column of inscription, a turquoise faience aegis and menat amulet surmounted by the head of a lion goddess wearing a sun-disk, two large faience Eyes of Horus, a calcite foot, a turquoise glazed steatite seal surmounted by a frog, a decorative device underneath, a turquoise-glazed steatite rectangular seal surmounted by four addorsed kittens(?), an inscription underneath, a turquoise glazed steatite seal surmounted by two water birds with heads turned back, an inscription underneath, a turquoise glazed steatite oval plaque with floral motifs on each side, a black serpentine(?) rectangular spacer incised on one side with a scorpion and on the opposite side with an inscription including the name of Tuthmosis III, a steatite cowroid with horned animal and floral motifs underneath, a steatite cowroid finely carved with two nilotic flowers, the underside carved in sunk relief with a seated lion and other hieroglyphs and motifs, and eleven scarabs: glazed rock crystal (with erased hieroglyphs on the base?), carnelian with spiral volutes, jasper or carnelian partially inscribed, schist with hieroglyphs, turquoise-glazed steatite with smiting king or god, steatite with two crowns flanking a djed-pillar above a neb-sign, a couchant oryx(?) above, turquoise-glazed steatite with the prenomen of Seti I flanked by a uraeus wearing the Crown of Upper Egypt, steatite with confronted animal-headed deities above a neb-sign, steatite with king holding a mace and was-scepter, turquoise faience with oryx and flower, and turquoise faience with symmetrical device in a field of dotted circles.

Collection of Natasha Rambova (1897-1966)
Professor Donald P. Hansen (1932-2007), New York