AN EGYPTIAN FELDSPAR MENAT COUNTERPOISE AMULET LATE PERIOD, 26TH DYNASTY, 664–525 B.C. |

of flattened form, with a gently tapered counterpoise rising to a wide rounded head, the end of the counterpoise with a suspension loop, the highly polished stone of a variegated green colour

Ralph Huntington Blanchard (1875-1936), proprietor of Blanchard's Egyptian Museum, Sharia Kamel, Cairo, acquired in the 1930s.
An American private collection.
New York art market, 2008.

Blanchard’s Egyptian label reads: “Ralph Blanchard, Guaranteed, No Menat. C., 25 Piastres, Antiquities, Cairo, Egypt”. For a related plain green faience example see W. M. Flinders Petrie, Amulets, London, 1914, plate III, no. 33b (probably identical with Petrie Museum, University College London, inv. no: UC38584: http://petriecat.museums.ucl.ac.uk/detail.aspx?parentpriref=#). For another green faience example inscribed for Psamtik I see Los Angeles County Museum of Art, inv. no. M.80.198.115 (https://collections.lacma.org/node/244605).