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Lot 280

An Egyptian green glazed composition shabti for the Commander of the Army, Ankh-wah-ib-re-si-Neith

3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian green glazed composition shabti for the Commander of the Army, Ankh-wah-ib-re-si-Neith
Late Period, late 26th Dynasty, circa 550 B.C.
Depicted mummiform, holding a pick and hoe, the front with eight rows of horizontal text and a column of text on the back pillar, with the standard Saite version of the shabti formula for the Commander of the Army, Ankh-wah-ib-re-si-Neith born to Ast-Akhbit, 18cm high

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Provenance:
Private collection, UK.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 6 June 1989, lot 418.
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired at the above sale.

Cf. H.D. Schneider, Shabtis, Part II, Leiden, 1977, p.204 no 5.3.1.261, Saqqara, late 26th Dynasty, circa 550 B.C.

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