AN EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI, BORN TO AMENIRDAIS SAITE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI, CIRCA 550 B.C. Inscribed with ten lines of the standard Saite version of Chapter 6 of the Book of the Dead, carrying a pick and hoe in crossed arms, with tripartite wig and beard, glaze worn, 7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm.) high; a green glazed composition shabti with single vertical column of hieroglyphic inscription, Dynasty XXX-early Ptolemaic, 4th-3rd Century B.C., 4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high; an Egyptian multicoloured faience bead necklace comprising disc beads with 12 amulets including a phallic amulet, a Bes and a Tueris figure, restrung, Amarna period, Dynasty XVIII (1550-1295 B.C.), 16¼ in. (41.3 cm.) long; an Egyptian steatite figure of Osiris, the standing god with back pillar, holding flail and crook, Late Period-Ptolemaic, 6th-1st Century B.C., 3½ in. (8.8 cm.) high; a bronze striding figure of Amun, traces of gilding, mounted, 3 in. (7.8 cm.) high; a bronze striding figure of Anubis, mounted, 2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high; a fragmentary bronze figure of Osiris, 3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm.) high, all Late Period-Ptolemaic, 6th-1st Century B.C.; a Coptic bronze stamp, with dots around a cross, circa 4th-5th Century A.D., 2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high; four Islamic miniature glass bottles with rectangular shaped bodies, circa 12th Century A.D., 2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) high max.; and a group of Roman pottery oil lamps, comprising five lamps with palmette shaped handles, 1st Century A.D., 3½ to 5 1/8 in. (9 to 13 cm.) long; two lamps decorated with a scallop shell on the central tondo and four with foliate and berried wreaths, 1st-3rd Century A.D., 3 to 4¼ in. (7.6 to 10.8 cm.) long (23)
AN EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI, BORN TO AMENIRDAIS SAITE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI, CIRCA 550 B.C. Inscribed with ten lines of the standard Saite version of Chapter 6 of the Book of the Dead, carrying a pick and hoe in crossed arms, with tripartite wig and beard, glaze worn, 7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm.) high; a green glazed composition shabti with single vertical column of hieroglyphic inscription, Dynasty XXX-early Ptolemaic, 4th-3rd Century B.C., 4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high; an Egyptian multicoloured faience bead necklace comprising disc beads with 12 amulets including a phallic amulet, a Bes and a Tueris figure, restrung, Amarna period, Dynasty XVIII (1550-1295 B.C.), 16¼ in. (41.3 cm.) long; an Egyptian steatite figure of Osiris, the standing god with back pillar, holding flail and crook, Late Period-Ptolemaic, 6th-1st Century B.C., 3½ in. (8.8 cm.) high; a bronze striding figure of Amun, traces of gilding, mounted, 3 in. (7.8 cm.) high; a bronze striding figure of Anubis, mounted, 2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high; a fragmentary bronze figure of Osiris, 3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm.) high, all Late Period-Ptolemaic, 6th-1st Century B.C.; a Coptic bronze stamp, with dots around a cross, circa 4th-5th Century A.D., 2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high; four Islamic miniature glass bottles with rectangular shaped bodies, circa 12th Century A.D., 2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) high max.; and a group of Roman pottery oil lamps, comprising five lamps with palmette shaped handles, 1st Century A.D., 3½ to 5 1/8 in. (9 to 13 cm.) long; two lamps decorated with a scallop shell on the central tondo and four with foliate and berried wreaths, 1st-3rd Century A.D., 3 to 4¼ in. (7.6 to 10.8 cm.) long (23)
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