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.

CONDITION

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