AN EGYPTIAN UPPER PART OF A SERPENTINE SHABTI
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AN EGYPTIAN UPPER PART OF A SERPENTINE SHABTI

DYNASTY XXV, CIRCA 7TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN UPPER PART OF A SERPENTINE SHABTI
DYNASTY XXV, CIRCA 7TH CENTURY B.C.
With well carved portrait(?) features, relief extended eyebrows and eyelids and holding a mattock and seed basket over his left shoulder, mounted
3 in. (7.7 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

This head is similar to the shabtis of the lector-priest Pediamenopet from Tomb 33, Assassif.

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