AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI
AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI

LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI, 664-525 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI
Late Period, Dynasty XXVI, 664-525 B.C.
Green in color, depicted mummiform with the arms folded over the chest, holding a hoe in each hand, with a seed basket over the left shoulder, wearing a striated tripartite wig and false beard, with a column of hieroglyphic text in sunk relief inscribed on the back pillar for "The Osiris, the Admiral of the Royal Flotilla, Heka-en-sa-ef"
7 1/16 in. (17.9 cm) high

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