Egyptian Faience Shabti and Amulet Group

LATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.

1 5/8 - 2 1/2 in. (20 grams total, 41-65 mm).

Two mummiform shabti figurines, one faded pale green and the other bright turquoise; one amuletic figurine, possibly of a ram or baboon-headed deity with sun disk headdress, applied black pigment detailing. [3, No Reserve]

Provenance

From the H.N. collection, Milton Keynes, Berkshire, UK, 1990s.

Footnotes

Shabti figures were created to carry out heavy manual tasks on behalf of a person in the afterlife. From the Third Intermediate Period into the Late Period burials were often provided with several hundred shabtis.

CONDITION

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LOT 0442