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LOT 0479
Egyptian Faience Shabti for Horemakhbit
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
6 1/4 in. (102 grams, 15.7 cm).
Of long, slender mummiform shape, wearing a tripartite wig and holding a pick and hoe, with a dorsal pillar bearing a hieroglyphic dedication to 'the Osiris, Horemakhbit'; repaired. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx M.S. Ciappara collection, Norfolk, UK, 1939-1950.
LiteratureCf. Janes, G., The Shabti Collections 6: A Selection from the World Museum, Liverpool, Lymm, 2016, 475-476, no. 248, for examples of similar style and text arrangement.
FootnotesShabti figures were created to carry out heavy manual tasks on behalf of a person in the afterlife. The body of a shabti was usually in the form of a mummy and often depicted with tools in their hands, such as baskets, picks, and hoes. During the Late Period, it was customary to be buried with hundreds of shabtis.
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