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LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI, 664-525 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR WEDJA-HOR
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI, 664-525 B.C.
Standing on an integral rectangular plinth against a back pillar, depicted mummiform with the arms crossing the chest, his fisted hands emerging from within his vestment, holding a crook and a flail, a seed sack over his left shoulder, wearing a striated tripartite wig and a plaited chin-beard curved out at its tip, inscribed with four columns of hieroglyphs, reading: "The Osiris Wedja-Hor, born of Iset-en-Khebe, Justified," and continuing with a form of the standard shabti text from Chapter 6 of The Book of the Dead
6 3/8 in. (16.3 cm.) high
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI, 664-525 B.C.
Standing on an integral rectangular plinth against a back pillar, depicted mummiform with the arms crossing the chest, his fisted hands emerging from within his vestment, holding a crook and a flail, a seed sack over his left shoulder, wearing a striated tripartite wig and a plaited chin-beard curved out at its tip, inscribed with four columns of hieroglyphs, reading: "The Osiris Wedja-Hor, born of Iset-en-Khebe, Justified," and continuing with a form of the standard shabti text from Chapter 6 of The Book of the Dead
6 3/8 in. (16.3 cm.) high
Provenance
R. Liechti Collection, Geneva, 1950-1980.
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