AN EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE SHABTI
PROPERTY FROM THE HARER FAMILY TRUST COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE SHABTI

LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE SHABTI
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
Standing on an integral rectangular plinth against an uninscribed back pillar, depicted mummiform with his arms crossing his chest, his fisted hands emerging from within his vestment, holding a crook and a flail, a seed sack over his left shoulder, wearing a tripartite wig and a braided chin-beard curved out at its tip
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Purportedly from Thebes.
Mr. F. Howlett, England, 1846.
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 17-18 November 1977, lot 454 (part).
with Superior Gallery, Los Angeles, 1978.
Literature
G.D. Scott, III, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 1S.
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1985-1990.
San Bernardino, University Art Gallery, 1992; Arizona State University Museum, 1993; and San Antonio Museum of Art, 1993-1996; Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection.
San Bernardino, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, 1997-2010.

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