Pataikos Amulet
1973.4.84
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Figure of a protective deity called Pataikos holding knives, standing on two crocodiles and flanked on either side by Isis and Nephthys. Collected by John Mason Cook in 1898.
CONDITION NOTE (1998): Heavily chipped, surface loss, surface dirt.
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum accession no. 240428. Purchased at Stevens's Auction Rooms Ltd, London, 21 July 1928, lot 219 "Ptah-Seker-Ausar figure from Illahun, with prayer inscription requesting funerary bandages", with the provenance recorded as "Collection of ancient Egyptian objects collected by Mr Thos. Cook when he accompanied the ex-Kaiser [Kaiser Wiilhelm II] to the Near East".