Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 BC. A large deep blue bifacial amuletic pendant of Bes in feather headdress with applied blue-green trails to the feet, hands, necklace, nose, eyes, brow and feathers; pierced at the neck and arms. Cf. Andrews, C. Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, 1994, item 6c. 12 grams, 49mm (2"). From a collection of Egyptian artefacts formed in the late 1970s and early 1980s; the property of a London gentleman.