LATE PERIOD, 30TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 380-342 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR PAKHAAS
LATE PERIOD, 30TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 380-342 B.C.
7 7⁄8 in. (20 cm.) high

Provenance

Rockford College Art Collection, Illinois, USA, acquired in the 19th century.
Rockford College; Leslie Hindman, Chicago, 10 September, 2006, lot 329.
with Charles Ede, London, 2007.

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Lot Essay

There are many examples of shabtis of the General Pakhaas in both museum and private collections. There is some confusion about whether the tomb was discovered in the 1840s at Giza or Saqqara- the Cairo catalogue records mention Saqqara, but there are other indications that the tomb was found at Giza, see C.M. Zivie-Coche, Giza au Premier Millenaire, Boston, 1991, p.304. For similar examples, cf. J.-F. Aubert, Statuettes égyptiennes, Paris, 1974, pl. 64, fig. 152.

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