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PROPERTY OF PROFESSOR AND MRS. SID PORT
AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR AHMOSE
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR AHMOSE
Late Period, Dynasty XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
Green in color, depicted mummiform with the arms folded over the chest, holding a hoe in each hand, with a seed bag over the left shoulder, wearing a striated, tripartite wig and a curved, plaited false beard, with eight lines of hieroglyphic text inscribed for "the overseer of the house of Amun, named Psametik whose good name is Ahmose, the justified, born to the priestess of Bastet, named Iry-di-sw..."
7¼ in. (18.5 cm) high
Late Period, Dynasty XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
Green in color, depicted mummiform with the arms folded over the chest, holding a hoe in each hand, with a seed bag over the left shoulder, wearing a striated, tripartite wig and a curved, plaited false beard, with eight lines of hieroglyphic text inscribed for "the overseer of the house of Amun, named Psametik whose good name is Ahmose, the justified, born to the priestess of Bastet, named Iry-di-sw..."
7¼ in. (18.5 cm) high
Provenance
Superior Galleries, Los Angeles