BEIGE FAIENCE USHABTI OF TIOUS

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BEIGE FAIENCE USHABTI OF TIOUS

Standing on small base, holding pick and hoe in his crossed hands, wearing striated tripartite wig and braided pharaonic beard; eight horizontal lines of impressed hieroglyphs:’… The Illuminated, the Osiris Tious, true of voice, born of Tayderek, true of voice…’

Ex priv. coll. G. C., Belgium, hence coll. J. B., Spain, originally acquired 1980s
H. 18,8 cm. Mounted on black stand

Late Period, 27th-30th Dyn., 525-341 BC

Cf. G. Janes, Shabtis, Paris 2002