Faience Head of a Pataikos

Culture: Egyptian

Period: Late period, 664-332 B.C.

Material: Faience

Dimensions: 3.4 cm high

Price: Sold

Ref: 1168

Provenance: French private collection, acquired in a French auction house. Published in Robert Bloch, "Antike Kleinkunst Antiquitäten", Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1976, page 126.

Condition: Fragment of an amulet of extraordinarily beautiful quality.

Description: A particularly finely worked, published head of a Pataikos with a very rounded back of the head, the forehead broad. The dwarf god with finely drawn brows, narrow eyes with lid line and a friendly smile. On the back of the neck an eyelet for suspension. The Pataikos is a dwarf god with apotropaic functions who was very popular with the people. He is the natural depiction of a dwarf person and exclusively used in amulet form. Mounted. Published in: Robert Bloch, "Antike Kleinkunst Antiquitäten", Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1976, page 126.