AN EGYPTIAN SCHIST SHABTI FOR AN-IA
LATE NEW KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 1292-945 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN SCHIST SHABTI FOR AN-IA LATE NEW KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 1292-945 B.C. Depicted mummiform, the arms crossing the chest, the fisted hands emerging from within the vestment, holding a hoe in each, a seed sack over each shoulder, wearing a multi-strand broad collar and a striated tripartite wig, with seven rows of hieroglyphs inscribed on the body, reading: "Instructions of the Osiris Justified An-iA, He says: O ye shabti," followed by a form of the standard shabti text from Chapter 6 of The Book for the Dead 8 in. (20.3 cm.) high
AN EGYPTIAN SCHIST SHABTI FOR AN-IA
LATE NEW KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 1292-945 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN SCHIST SHABTI FOR AN-IA LATE NEW KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 1292-945 B.C. Depicted mummiform, the arms crossing the chest, the fisted hands emerging from within the vestment, holding a hoe in each, a seed sack over each shoulder, wearing a multi-strand broad collar and a striated tripartite wig, with seven rows of hieroglyphs inscribed on the body, reading: "Instructions of the Osiris Justified An-iA, He says: O ye shabti," followed by a form of the standard shabti text from Chapter 6 of The Book for the Dead 8 in. (20.3 cm.) high
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