Description: A group of four Egyptian amulets of degenerate type comprising a brown hardstone amulet of a couchant animal, possibly a calf perhaps symbolic of rejuvenation; a green faience amulet of Deshret, the Red Crown of Lower Egypt, pierced for suspension; a pale green faience amulet of Shu, the god of air and sunlight, broken below the waist with the legs and base lost; a pale green faience amulet of a sow, probably representing the sky goddess Nut, with suspension loop on back, the surface worn, particularly on one side.
Size: 12 mm/0.5 in. to 17 mm/0.7 in.
Culture: Egyptian
Date: Late Period, c. 600 B.C., the hardstone couchant animal possibly earlier.
Provenance: Ex West Sussex private collection.
