An amulet of a recumbent lion in pale blue glazed faience. The amulet is finely modelled with incised details, the front paws outstretched forward, on integral rectangular base with a suspension loop on its back. Supplied with a small acrylic display block.
 
Egyptian Late Dynastic period: 7th-1st century BC.
 
Condition: Complete and intact
Length 34.2 mms (1.3 ins).
 
Provenance: Ex London gallery; previously in a 1930's Home counties UK collection.
 
For similar see items 219f-j in Petrie, W.M.F. 'Amulets', London, 1914.
 
Carol Andrews tells us that most such amulets are late in date. In a Late Period papyrus, a spell against snakes requires the words to be said 'over a lion of glazed composition threaded to a red linen'. (Carol Andrews. Amulets of Ancient Egypt; University of Texas Press, 1 Jan. 1994.)