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Large and rare Egyptian Ushabti 26th - 30th Dynasty. " saitic period " 664 - 343 BC or Late Dynastic Period. A beautifully molded faience ushabti with sharp details and nice turquoise color wears tripartite wig and holds a pick and a hoe, seed bag draped over left shoulder. Nine registers of hieroglyphic text down front. two first linesnaming the official and giving his title. Condition : Intact and a most impressive example of one of the most popular items from ancient Egypt. Height: 19.8cm / 7.25. Flat base size 4X 2.9cm. Price including: Certificate of Authenticity, Shipping "one week delivery, door to door and Export approval from the antiquities authority in Israel . Questions Toll Free No: .from U.S.A. to Jerusalem. Biblical Reference: . Ge 41:33 "Now let Pharaoh look for a man discerning and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REFERENCES: . 1-Bob Brier, The Encyclopedia of Mummies, Checkmark Books, 1998., p.186. 2- The Treasures of Ancient Egypt, 2001 , p 488. { this books available for sale}. Ushabti. A Funerary figurine, usually in the form of a mummy, which served as a dead man's deputy in order to do labor for him, mostly agricultural, in the afterlife. This term applies to these figures after the 21st Dynasty, and really only to figurines inscribed with chapter six of the Book of the Dead. Otherwise, they might better be defined by the generic term, funerary figurines. The Ushabti counterparts prior to the 21st Dynasty were called Shabti, or Shawabti (in the Theban area) . Faience. Faience is a glazed non-clay ceramic material or silica, composed of crushed quartz or sand, with small amounts of lime, and either natron or plant ash. Its main ingredient was quartz, obtained from sand, or crushed pebbles to which was added an alkali, a bit of lime and ground copper as colorant. Egypt is rich in silica, in the form of desert sand, but for faience-making, certain sand sources were considered superior to others. Sand is not pure silica, as it contains impurities such as chalk, limestone or iron.
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