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 2.|<> Hi>TokY )! ART iv PHF.MCIA AI> ITS I )I:I'I.M>FNVIFS. Among amulets we shall place those figures of tutelary deities, those statuettes of terra-cotta or gla/ed earthenware which, as a rule, suggest Egyptian types. 1 As examples we figure the hawk- headed deity with his arms close to his sides and the small elongated cube with figures on three of its faces. Of these one resembles Bes, another the pygmy god who has been identified with Ptah, while the third presents a rarer type ; that of a nude and winged goddess with her legs ending in the body of a serpent. Above Fie.. I/S. Amulet in gla/cd earthenware. From Crespi. her head appears the solar disk between two pendant wings (Fig. 1/8). We may also note a woman's head with an Egyptian head-dress (Fig. 1 79), which formed part of a necklace, and a great variety of scarabs (Fig. 180) ; sometimes a sov < takes the place of a scarab, but even here the under side of the base on which that animal stands is engraved with Egyptian symbols (Fig. 181). Even the oudja, or mystical eye of Osiris, is not absent (Fig. 182). On the reverse of this latter amulet a group is FH;. 170. - f ilas Fnn C i Fi<;. iSo.- Scnrah. From Spam carved which was a favourite in Egypt, namely, a cow suckling her calf. 2 Finally, the necropolis of Tharros has afforded several specimens of those light gold and silver sheaths, or etuis, in which 1 CRESPI (Catalogo, p. 28) tells us that these amulets of glazed or white earthen- ware, of glass, of ivory, and of soft or hard stone, were found in the tombs in thousands. 2 LKPSIUS, Denkmccler, part ii. plates 31 and 77. Else-vhere (plates 12 and 46) one finds a goat with a fawn's head.