Faience Ushabti of the 26th Dynasty, 664 BCE - 525 CE
Faience
1.75 x 6.5 x 1.25
PF.0483
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The figure is inscribed with a text of eight lines which translates as follows: 1) Illumine Osiris--Har, child of Hathor in the necropolis when he says: O Ushabti 2) this....
The figure is inscribed with a text of eight lines which translates as follows: 1) Illumine Osiris--Har, child of Hathor in the necropolis when he says: O Ushabti 2) this. Act in the form of Osiris--Har, child of Hathor in the necropolis. Do all the 3) work there in the necropolis. Then you will smite there as 4) a man at his affairs. Behold me, say 5) you. If one numbers at any time, cause to 6) grow the fields, to cause to fill the channels 7) to carry sand from the west to the east 8) and vice-versa. Behold me, say you.