DYNASTY XXX, CIRCA 380-343 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI OF HOR-UDJA, PROPHET OF NEITH
DYNASTY XXX, CIRCA 380-343 B.C.
Finely detailed, with nine lines of horizontal inscription, carrying pick and hoe, with seed-bag over shoulder, wearing striated tripartite wig with false plaited beard, glaze deficient, repaired, mounted, 8¾ in. (22.3 cm.) high; a blue glazed overseer shabti, black glazed details, possibly Dynasty XXI-XXII, 4 in. (10.2 cm.) high; another, green glazed, with central panel of inscribed hieroglyphs, 4 3/8 in. (11.2 cm.) high; three shabtis smaller, 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) high max.; three necklaces, two of turquoise glazed composition cylindrical beads and a necklace composed of cornelian beads and glazed composition amulets including four of Tueris, three falcons, two wedjat-eyes and one figure of Bes, 13½ in. (34.4 cm.) long max.; a djed-pillar amulet, all mainly Late Period/Ptolemaic, 7th-1st Century B.C.; and three steatite scarabs, two with Amon-Re on the reverse, the other with royal sphinx holding a maat-feather, New Kingdom(a lot)

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Lot Essay

Item one: the mount with ink inscribed label "... brought from his tomb at Hawara, Fayoum, Egypt, by W. Flinders Petrie". The tomb was discovered by Petrie in 1888, cf. J-F. Aubert, Statuettes Égyptiennes, Paris, 1974, no. 154, pl. 65 for another shabti from the same group.

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