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LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR PA-DI-OSIRIS
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Light blue-green in color, standing on an integral plinth against an uninscribed back pillar, depicted mummiform with the arms crossing his chest, his fisted hands emerging from within his vestment, holding a crook and a flail, a seed sack over his left shoulder, wearing a striated tripartite headcloth and a braided chin-beard curving out at its tip, inscribed with twelve rows of hieroglyphs, reading: “Instructions of the Osiris, God’s Servant (Prophet) of the Two Supports of Heaven (i.e. Shu and Tefnut), Pa-di-Osiris, (called) Ptah-en-khenu –hery-ib-Henen-nesu (?) (or Ny-Ptah-khenu-hery-ib-Henen-nesu?), born of Sed-iret-binet, Justified, He says," and continuing with a form of the standard shabti text from Chapter 6 of The Book of the Dead
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Light blue-green in color, standing on an integral plinth against an uninscribed back pillar, depicted mummiform with the arms crossing his chest, his fisted hands emerging from within his vestment, holding a crook and a flail, a seed sack over his left shoulder, wearing a striated tripartite headcloth and a braided chin-beard curving out at its tip, inscribed with twelve rows of hieroglyphs, reading: “Instructions of the Osiris, God’s Servant (Prophet) of the Two Supports of Heaven (i.e. Shu and Tefnut), Pa-di-Osiris, (called) Ptah-en-khenu –hery-ib-Henen-nesu (?) (or Ny-Ptah-khenu-hery-ib-Henen-nesu?), born of Sed-iret-binet, Justified, He says," and continuing with a form of the standard shabti text from Chapter 6 of The Book of the Dead
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired by the current owner on the Geneva market, 1980.
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