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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR PSAMETIK
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR PSAMETIK
Late Period, Dynasty XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
Depicted mummiform with the arms folded over the chest, holding agricultural implements in each hand, with a seed bag over his left shoulder, wearing a tripartite wig and a false beard, inscribed with ten lines of hieroglyphic text for "the royal, scribe...Psametik, whose mother is Mery-neith"
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm) high
Late Period, Dynasty XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
Depicted mummiform with the arms folded over the chest, holding agricultural implements in each hand, with a seed bag over his left shoulder, wearing a tripartite wig and a false beard, inscribed with ten lines of hieroglyphic text for "the royal, scribe...Psametik, whose mother is Mery-neith"
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm) high
Provenance
Mitsukoshi Department Store, Japan, 1986
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