Glazed Faience Shabti Figurine

Glazed Faience Shabti Figurine

Description:

Glazed composition (faience) figurine of a woman with hands on her breasts, described as a 'shabti' in the original Register; mould-made; lower legs lost and glaze worn in places.


Dimensions: Height: 5.50 centimetres max


Object Type: figurine


Techniques: mould-made; glazed

Period:

Archaic

Date:

750 - 300 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Amathus

Accession Number:

1894,1101.438