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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR THE OVERSEER OF THE WRITINGS OF THE ROYAL MEAL, PSAMTEK, BORN OF MER-NEITH

LATE PERIOD, 27TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 525-404 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR THE OVERSEER OF THE WRITINGS OF THE ROYAL MEAL, PSAMTEK, BORN OF MER-NEITH

LATE PERIOD, 27TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 525-404 B.C.
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high

Provenance

Elsa Bloch-Diener collection, Bern (base with 19th Century label).

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Lot Essay

The tomb of Psamtek in Saqqara was one of many excavations by French archaeologist and founder of the Egyptian Department for Antiquities, Auguste Mariette (1821-1881). For similar examples cf. H. D. Schneider, Shabtis, II, Netherlands, 1977, p. 179, 5.3.1.137; and J-F. Aubert, Statuettes Égyptiennes, Paris, 1974, p. 240.

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