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CIVILIZATION | Egyptian |
PERIOD | Late Period |
DATE | 30th Dynasty, 380-343 B.C. |
MATERIAL | Faience |
MOUNTED | No |
Dark green glazed faience composition, wearing a tripartite wig and braided beard, standing mummiform with hands crossed over the chest to hold the pick and hoe, a seed-bag over the left shoulder, with five horizontal bands of hieroglyphs, reading “(1) Illuminate the Osiris Tjaenheb, true of voice. He says: (2) "If the Osiris Tjaenheb is conscripted (3) to do any work that needs to be done there (4) in the necropolis, once obstacles have been removed there (5) from a man at his duties, 'Here [I am]!' You shall say."
ex. Crane Collection, Canada, 1966.
Formerly in a Toronto Collection.
Haynes, J.; Shabtis - Privately Owned Egyptian Antiquities in Ontario, SSEA Publications (1990), Volume VII, p. 31-32, no. 10.
Petrie, W.; Shabtis, pl. XLIV, no. 577, for a shabti for Tjanheb.
Schneider, H.; Shabtis, II, p. 200, no. 5.3.1.246, dates the shabti to Dynasty 30.
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CATEGORY | Egyptian |
PERIOD | Late Period |
DATE | 30th Dynasty, 380-343 B.C. |
MATERIAL | |
MOUNTED | No |