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Egyptian Blue Glazed Hieroglyphic Shabti for Akhet Egyptian Blue Glazed Hieroglyphic Shabti for Akhet Egyptian Blue Glazed Hieroglyphic Shabti for Akhet Egyptian Blue Glazed Hieroglyphic Shabti for Akhet Egyptian Blue Glazed Hieroglyphic Shabti for Akhet Egyptian Blue Glazed Hieroglyphic Shabti for Akhet
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LOT 0488

Egyptian Blue Glazed Hieroglyphic Shabti for Akhet

27TH-30TH DYNASTY 525-343 B.C.

4 1/2 in. (48 grams total, 11.4 cm including stand).

Olive-green with dorsal pillar, false beard and agricultural tools; vertical band of hieroglyphic text to the lower body and another to the dorsal pillar.

Provenance

Acquired in Egypt by Lieutenant James Alexander Goodman in the 1920s.
Thence by descent to his grandson.

Footnotes

Lieutenant Goodman served in the 4th Battalion Welsh Regiment during World War I and saw action in Palestine during the capture of Bethlehem, (for which he won an MC). After the war, he setup a business selling Fordson trucks and tractors in Alexandria, Egypt. A keen antiquarian, he collected ancient objects during his time in Alexandria and when he visited the pyramids at Giza. After his first marriage failed, he returned to the UK in the early 1930s. On his death in 1959 he passed his small collection of Egyptian objects on to his second wife, Ruby Goodman. On Ruby’s death in 1994, they were left to their second daughter, Rosemary Johnson, (née Goodman), and are currently in the possession of her son.

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LOT 0488

Egyptian Blue Glazed Hieroglyphic Shabti for Akhet

Sold for (Inc. bp): £494

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