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LOT 0470
Egyptian Blue Glazed Shabti for Son of Ta-heb
30TH DYNASTY, 380-343 B.C.
4 1/8 in. (36 grams, 10.7 cm).
Composed as a mummiform figure with tripartite wig and hands crossed at the chest, holding a pick, hoe, and seed bag; a T-shaped panel of hieroglyphic text reading: sḥḏ wsỉr tꜢ.... ms.n tꜢ ḥb mꜢʾ ḫrw, ‘The illuminated, the Osiris, Ta…. born to Ta-heb true of voice’. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in Egypt in 1933.
Ex Alexander Cameron (1897-1994) collection.
Cf. Janes, G., The Shabti Collections 6: A Selection from the World Museum, Liverpool, Lymm, 2016, p.442, no.230, for a shabti of similar style.
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