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LOT 0471
Egyptian Faience Shabti Group
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 332-30 B.C.
2 1/4 - 2 5/8 in. (20 grams total, 58-68 mm).
Comprising two blue mummiform figures with their arms crossed at the chest and wearing a tripartite wig and a false beard. [2, No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex H Norri collection, Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, UK, 1980s-1990s.
Literature
Cf. Janes, G., The Shabti Collections 6: A Selection from the World Museum, Liverpool, Lymm, 2016, p. 519, no. 273 (16.9.02.24f-t), for a group of 15 similar shabtis from Abydos.
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