Circa 1500 BC. A cast amuletic pendant of Ra in a barque with inset carnelian disc to the sun; mounted on a card shield with handwritten note to the reverse 'Egyptian Lord Amherst's Colln. Very rare Bronze Amulet (inlaid). Carnelian. The Sun - Ra in boat. B.C./ 1500 D/F'. 5.94 grams, 67mm including card (2 3/4"). Ex Baron Amherst collection, Didlington Hall Museum; found Luxor in the 19th century, mounted on old collection card with inked inscription on the reserse. Baron Amherst is renowned as a collector of books, manuscripts, antique furniture and other works of art, and latterly for his Egyptian collection which he housed in Didlington Hall. His name is prominent at the Carter Gallery display of Swaffham Museum, Norfolk, England which may mean that Tyssen-Amherst’s collection of ancient papyri and Egyptian figures was seen by a young Howard Carter. Records indicate that in 1882 Amherst exhibited six life size Egyptian figures at Swaffham Assembly Rooms and the catalogue describes the items exhibited which included a figure of a Bedouin chief and a Thutmose III brick (circa 1330 BC), excavated from the banks of the Nile. Amhurst's collection included the lower section of a 20th Dynasty tomb robbery papyrus, otherwise described as the 'Leopold II and Amherst Papyrus', which is now in the Morgan Library & Museum, New York. TimeLine Auctions Ltd arranges printed catalogue rostrum Auctions, eAuctions and Timed Auctions where we offer antiquities, ancient artefacts / artifacts, antiques, collectibles, coins, medals and books for public sale.

Fine condition.