Glazed powdered quartz composite (faience), 3.42 grams, 48.57 mm. Late Dynastic Period, circa 715-332 BC. A deep green faience mount or fitting used in the elaboration of mummies in the complex network of amuletic beads. The piece represents Hapy, one of the four sons of Horus and one of the four Canopic Deities. Baboon-headed Hapy protected the lungs, falcon-headed Qebhsenuef guarded the intestines, human-form Imsety the liver and jackal-headed Duamutef the stomach. There are two piercings to accept the amulet threads, and recesses where binding threads were passed over the surface. Reference: Andrews, C. Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, 1994, p.45-6. Very fine condition. Provenance: from an old English collection.