This blue glazed faience amulet represents Pataikos, a popular protective deity, amulets of whom were believed to ward off threats to the wearer. He is usually depicted as a nude dwarf with a bald head, often wielding a pair of knives.
Provenance
From Giza, G 7652 A, room 8. 1929: excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession Date: April 28, 1929)
Credit Line
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Egyptian, Late Period–Roman Imperial Period, 760 B.C.–A.D. 364
Findspot
Giza, Egypt
Accession Number
29.1426
Medium or Technique
Faience