WHITE FAIENCE LION

WHITE FAIENCE LION

Its forelegs stretched out on rectangular base, tail curled around the right haunch, suspension loop on its spine

Ex priv. coll. G.M.R.H., England 2017
L. 6,2 cm. Intact. Rare for its white colour

Ptolemaic Period, 3rd – 1st cent. BC

Cf. C. Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London 1994, p. 64-5