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EGYPTIAN FAIENCE BABOON AMULET WITH RAM HEAD - Late Period, Ca. 664 - 332 BC. A Late Period pale green faience amulet of a polymorphic deity. Here the baboon body of Thoth is combined with what appears to be the ram head of Khnum. For similar see: MET museum Accession Number: 44.4.28. Size: 28mm x 11mm; Weight: 6g Property of a London gallery; previously in a collection of a North London gentleman; formerly in a collection of Mrs B. Ellison, a deceased former member of the Egyptian Exploration Fund, bought from the 1940s, Cairo and London.