The Petrie Museum

Amulet of type known in Egyptology as cippus or Horus stela, with high raised relief figure of Horus as naked child with sidelock standing on two crocodiles; oryx and serpents in each hand; Bes head at top; inscribed in hieroglyphs on all faces with words to be spoken in defence of health, mainly against snake and scorpion bites; green siltstone. Ptolemaic period.

Limestone model of crenellated tower (one corner damaged) with two ears, coloured pink, and a figure of a woman in a long translucent garment standing in adoration, her face and arms pink. 18th-19th Dynasty (1500-1200 BC)

Limestone wall-relief block, with heads and torsos of two goddesses facing left in low relief, background left rough. Ptolemaic period.

Limestone wall block fragment with parts of five columns of green-filled hieroglyphic inscription, from the debris of the north wall of the antechamber, inscribed with Pyramid Texts, within the pyramid of king Pepy I at Saqqara, containing the cartouche of King Pepy four times in the formulae for the ascent of the king to heaven and for his eternal supply of food and drink. Dynasty 6 (2287 BC).

Part of hard limestone wall-block, detail with vulture and duck. 12th Dynasty (1991-1802 BC).

Upper part of painted limestone double statuette of man and woman, generally identified as a husband and wife, probably seated as in most double statuettes of this date, with seven vertical columns of hieroglyphs inscribed on back, with funerary prayers for the owners, names not preserved. Set in modern plaster base; noses and areas of loss in inscription also filled with plaster and painted in modern times, date of restoration not recorded. From the collection of Amelia Edwards. 18th Dynasty.