shabti

Wooden overseer shabti. New Kingdom.Wearing a kilt. Black hair, red/brown face and hands, black hieroglyphs down centre. The hieroglyphs go under the kilt of the shabti. Wearing collar. Traces of yellow glaze. 205mm high. Old label 158/11 on circular paper on back. Same as foreman W378 lot 157/11. Spell 6 of the 'Book of the Dead' is the Shabti spell, which appears on some shabtis. In brief it ca…