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Lot 325

1 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian pale green glazed composition shabti for Ramose
Late Period, 26th-30th Dynasty, circa 664-332 B.C.
Holding the hoe and pick with a seed-bag behind the left shoulder, wearing a striped tripartite wig, with seven rows of text around the body for the 'Sameref priest, scribe of the god's sealers Ramose, [son of] Padibastet', 7¾in (19.6cm) high, mounted

Footnotes

Provenance:
English private collection A.B., before 1970.

Literature:
The priestly title Sameref was associated with the necropolis of Heracleopolis Magna, an important city at the entrance of the Fayum. The god's sealers were also responsible for the burial of the dead.

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