An Egyptian bright blue glazed shabti for Meret-Amun, 21st Dynasty, Thebes, Deir el Bahri Cache II, ca. 990 - 970 BCE Jewelry - Gemstones a pointed kilt with an

a pointed kilt with an apron

These hybrid monsters with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle were inspired in classical Greco-Roman times by the descriptions of beaked quadruped dinosaur fossils in gold deposits of Central Asia

The overall pose is sensitive and relaxed

This example is typical of the type

was the god of wine

An Egyptian bright blue glazed shabti for Meret-Amun, 21st Dynasty, Thebes, Deir el Bahri Cache II, ca. 990 - 970 BCE Jewelry - Gemstones a pointed kilt with anThe flat backed worker figure, depicted with black wig, carrying two hoes, a diamond patterned mesh bag across the back, one column of text down the front, for the female Osiris Meret Amun. Meret Amun was the daughter of High Priest of Amun Menkheperra A and Isememkhebit C and (half )sister of Pinedjem II, Ankhefenmut, Gautseshen A, Hori, and Tjanefer and a granddaughter of Pinudjem I. The lady was buried in a coffin set, which is now in the Egyptian