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LOT 0490

Egyptian Turquoise Blue Faience Shabti with Hieroglyphic Inscription

NEW KINGDOM, 19TH-20TH DYNASTY, 1292-1069 B.C.

5 1/4 in. (98 grams, 13.2 cm).

Mummiform shabti wearing a tripartite wig, with arms crossed and holding a hoe in each hand, and cords for a water pot hanging from the back on each shoulder; a seed bag suspended below the wig; the outline of the eyes, eyebrows, mouth, hoes, water pots, and seed bag painted black; a central column of hieroglyphs on the front, with the opening preserved reading "The Osiris..."; repaired. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From a UK private collection formed in the 1970s.
Ex Ancient Relics.
Ex D.S. collection, West Sussex, 1990s-2000s.

Accompanied by an illustrated catalogue sheet and a previous catalogue information slip.

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. 41 no. 3.3.2.3, for a shabti with similar black-painted details on both front and back.

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LOT 0490

Egyptian Turquoise Blue Faience Shabti with Hieroglyphic Inscription

Sold for (Inc. bp): £338

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