EGYPTIAN BLUE GLAZED SHABTI FOR SON OF TA-HEB 30TH DYNASTY, 380-343 B.C. 4 1/8 in. (36 grams, 10.7 cm). Composed as a mummiform figure with tripartite wig and hands crossed at the chest, holding a pick, hoe, and seed bag; a T-shaped panel of hieroglyphic text reading: sḥḏ wsỉr tꜢ.... ms.n tꜢ ḥb mꜢʾ ḫrw, ‘The illuminated, the Osiris, Ta…. born to Ta-heb true of voice’. [No Reserve] PROVENANCE: Acquired in Egypt in 1933. Ex Alexander Cameron (1897-1994) collection. LITERATURE: Cf. Janes, G., The Shabti Collections 6: A Selection from the World Museum, Liverpool, Lymm, 2016, p.442, no.230, for a shabti of similar style. CONDITION
EGYPTIAN BLUE GLAZED SHABTI FOR SON OF TA-HEB 30TH DYNASTY, 380-343 B.C. 4 1/8 in. (36 grams, 10.7 cm). Composed as a mummiform figure with tripartite wig and hands crossed at the chest, holding a pick, hoe, and seed bag; a T-shaped panel of hieroglyphic text reading: sḥḏ wsỉr tꜢ.... ms.n tꜢ ḥb mꜢʾ ḫrw, ‘The illuminated, the Osiris, Ta…. born to Ta-heb true of voice’. [No Reserve] PROVENANCE: Acquired in Egypt in 1933. Ex Alexander Cameron (1897-1994) collection. LITERATURE: Cf. Janes, G., The Shabti Collections 6: A Selection from the World Museum, Liverpool, Lymm, 2016, p.442, no.230, for a shabti of similar style. CONDITION
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