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LOT 0464

Sold for (Inc. bp): £169

EGYPTIAN PALE BLUE FAIENCE SHABTI
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 332-30 B.C.
2 1/2 in. (9.17 grams, 63 mm).

Mummiform figure with false beard and holding agricultural implements in the crossed hands. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Schneider, H.D. Shabtis. An Introduction to the History of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Statuettes with a Catalogue of the Collection of Shabtis in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, Vol.3, Leiden, 1977, p. 79, no. 5.3.4.147, for a similar example.

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