Egyptian Pale Green Glazed Faience Shabti Fragment with Hieroglyphs

LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.

5 in. (86 grams, 12.5 cm including stand).

Head and torso of a mummiform figure, wearing a tripartite wig and divine beard, with arms crossed and hands holding agricultural implements and a cord for a seed bag over the left shoulder, three horizontal bands of hieroglyphic inscriptions to the lower body; mounted on a wooden display stand.

Provenance

From a Scottish gentleman’s collection, Glasgow, formed from the early 2000s.

Literature

Cf. Janes, G., The Shabti Collections 5: A Selection from the Manchester Museum, Lymm, 2012, pp. 354-356, no. 194, for a group of similar (complete) shabtis from el-Hiba.

Footnotes

The owner's name is poorly preserved, although the filiation that follows may read: "...born (to) Djed-mut-ies-ankh" (ms ḏd mwt ı͗w s Ꜥnḫ).

CONDITION

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