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EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE NUDE FEMALE TALISMAN Depicting a Nubian woman, her hair in tightly curled bunches; on each shoulder sits a monkey.Before her is a low lotus column with another seated monkey, and in her right hand, a falcon. Behind her leg sits another monkey. Rare. For protection of women in chlidbirth. Cf. Gifts of the Nile, p.208, no. 69. Losses. Late Period, 715-30 BC H. 5 in. (12.7 cm.) WPK03 SOLD |
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