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FOUR EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTIS FOR HOR-DJE-HER
LATE PERIOD/PTOLEMAIC, CIRCA MID-4TH CENTURY B.C.
FOUR EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTIS FOR HOR-DJE-HER LATE PERIOD/PTOLEMAIC, CIRCA MID-4TH CENTURY B.C. Each holding hoe, mattock and seed bag over left shoulder, with ten lines of hieroglyphs from Chapter VI of the Book of the Dead, 6¾ in. (17 cm.) high max.; and another 26 smaller shabtis for the same person, each with single column of hieroglyphs, 4¼ in. (11 cm.) high max.; a green stone heart scarab, 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) long; a sheet gold amulet of a floral collar; another of a Horus falcon, 5/8 in. (1.5 cm.) high max.; a lapis lazuli amulet of the standing goddess Neith, 1 in. (2.5 cm.) high; a cornelian djed -pillar, ¾ in. (2 cm.) high; a group of pottery lamps and vessels including a red-ware jar with laurel wreath in applied white on the shoulder, 6 in. (15.2 cm.) high; two lamps with lugs on the side of the body; another with dotted decoration; a lamp tondo with Chi-Rho monogram, 4¼ in. (11 cm.) long max., all 3rd-7th Century A.D.; a 'cocked-hat' lamp, circa 6th Century B.C.; a bucchero ware dish with impressed palmette decoration on the interior, 3½ in. (9 cm.) diam.; another flat dish, similar, 7 in. (18 cm.) diam., circa 4th Century B.C.; a copy of J. Faivre's Canopus, Menouthis, Aboukir , Alexandria, 1918; and a file containing numerous original photographs, notes, plans, drawings and 1943 newspaper articles from The Evening Standard and The Egyptian Gazette(a lot)