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LOT 0008
Egyptian Green Glazed Hieroglyphic Shabti
LATE PERIOD, 664-323 B.C.
5 1/8 in. (123 grams total, 13 cm high including stand).
Modelled mummiform with arms crossed over the chest, holding pick and hoe, a column of hieroglyphs with owner and mother's names running vertically down the front of the body, standing on a plinth with blank pillar to reverse; mounted on a wooden display base. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Gifted by Herbert Parsons (1870-1940) to his grandson, James Gibson (1926-2013).
Inherited by the vendor and her brother, from their grandfather James Gibson.
Literature
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 03.6.3, for a comparable shabti of this period.
Footnotes
The owner of this shabti (name unclear) was a Hem-Ka priest of Osiris.
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Modelled mummiform with arms crossed over the chest, holding pick and hoe, a column of hieroglyphs with owner and mother's names running vertically down the front of the body, standing on a plinth with blank pillar to reverse; mounted on a wooden display base. 123 grams total, 13 cm high including stand
Gifted by Herbert Parsons (1870-1940) to his grandson, James Gibson (1926-2013). Inherited by the vendor and her brother, from their grandfather James Gibson.
The owner of this shabti (name unclear) was a Hem-Ka priest of Osiris.
