Description:

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A sizable, mold-formed faience ushabti covered in a lime-green glaze. The figure stands in mummiform atop an integral rectangular plinth with crossed arms holding the symbolic pick and hoe used to sow the sacred fields of Osiris in the afterlife. Almond eyes with extended outer canthi, a triangular nose, cupped ears, and thin lips comprise the visage, and the head is adorned with a tripartite wig and a plaited false beard. Eight lines of progressively smaller lines of hieroglyphic text are inscribed on the front and sides of the lower body. A fabulous example from the Late Dynastic Period! Size: 2.125" W x 7.25" H (5.4 cm x 18.4 cm).

For a stylistically-similar example from the 26th Dynasty, please see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 58.4.2: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/550770

Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection

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  • Condition: Surface wear and abrasions commensurate with age as expected, very minor nicks to base, legs, body, and head, with chipping and fading to glaze, and fading to hieroglyphic text, otherwise intact and very good. Light earthen deposits throughout. Facial features are still well-defined.

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