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LOT 0542
Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI COLLECTION
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 332-30 B.C.
2 3/8 - 2 1/2 in. (38.5 grams total, 60-65 mm).
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 332-30 B.C.
2 3/8 - 2 1/2 in. (38.5 grams total, 60-65 mm).
Comprising four mummiform shabtis with worn detail, three blue-glazed. [4]
PROVENANCE:
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Tinius, I., Altägypten in Braunschweig. Die Sammlungen des Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museums und des Städtischen Museums, Wiesbaden, 2011, pp. 68-69, nos. 93-94, for examples of similarly crude mould-made faience shabtis.
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