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Description : 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

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About the lot N° 68
Title : AN EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE SHABTI
Size : (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.

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