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Description : Ancient Egypt, early New Kingdom Period, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1550 to 1292 BCE. A lovely pair of mold-formed faience ushabti figures, one covered in a sky-blue glaze and the other in a pale blue-green glaze. The shorter figure has the traditional pose of an overseer shabti, an individual who is in charge of monitoring up to ten worker ushabti in the sacred fields of Osiris in the afterlife. The overseer wears a knee-length robe with the left hand held against the chest, a painted depiction of a whip is customary for this type of figure. The taller shabti stands in mummiform with crossed arms and wears a tripartite wig, with facial details, a knotted headband, a seed basket and the symbolic pick and hoe, and a column of hieroglyphic text presented in applied black pigment. Custom wooden display stand included. Size of largest (blue-green): 3.425 H (8.7 cm), 4 H (10.2 cm) on included custom stand. Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #136157
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