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LOT 0533
Egyptian Brown Faience Shabti
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 1069-860 B.C.
2 1/4 in. (7.53 grams, 59 mm).
Mummiform figure with agricultural implements held in crossed arms, wearing a tripartite wig with a painted hair tie. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collection, 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Schneider, H.D. Shabtis. An Introduction to the History of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Statuettes with a Catalogue of the Collection of Shabtis in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, Vol.3, Leiden, 1977, p. 54, no. 4.5.1.13, for a similar example.
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Amulets in the form of poppies were used to heal and alleviate pain and to ward off death. These types of amulets were also linked to Osiris, the Egyptian deity of agriculture, death, and the afterlife.