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LOT 0002
Egyptian Faience Shabti for Hor-sa-Iset
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
6 in. (124 grams, 15.2 cm).
Of mummiform type, wearing a tripartite wig and long plaited divine beard; holding a pick in the left hand, a hoe in the right, and the cord of a seed bag hanging over his left shoulder; standing on an integral plinth, a plain back pillar terminating at the base of the wig; two vertical panels of hieroglyphic inscription to the front, including dedication: sḥḏ wsỉr ḥr sꜢ Ꜣst, ‘The illuminated, the Osiris, Hor-sa-Iset’; mounted on a custom-made display stand.
ProvenanceJacques René Fiechter, Switzerland (1920-1950).
with Auction Martin, Egyptian collection of André Bircher, 1949.
with Cahn Auktionen AG, Basel, 5 November 2011, no.20.
Private collection, Europe.
Accompanied by copies of the relevant Cahn catalogue pages.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Janes, G., Shabtis: A Private View, Paris, 2002, pp.175-176, no. 91, for a shabti of similar style.
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