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A LARGE EGYPTIAN GREY/GREEN GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI FOR HOR-UDJA, PROPHET OF NEITH, BORN OF SHEDET

LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXX (380-343 B.C.)

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A LARGE EGYPTIAN GREY/GREEN GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI FOR HOR-UDJA, PROPHET OF NEITH, BORN OF SHEDET
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXX (380-343 B.C.)
Mummiform, with arms crossed holding pick and hoe, seed bag over left shoulder, wearing striated tripartite wig and false beard, nine horizontal lines of inscription from Chapter Six of the Book of the Dead, on integral mount with back pillar
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The tomb of the owner was discovered by W. M. Flinders Petrie at Hawara in 1888, cf. H. D. Schneider, Shabtis, Part II, Leiden, 1977, p. 191, no. 5.3.1.188, for another example in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden.

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