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SC/29
Title:
The Osiris, the Godsfather
Dimensions:
H: 6.0 CM, W: 2.1 CM, D: 1.3 CM
Material
Faience
Text: The Osiris, the Godsfather, Ptah-Hotep
R-R
141.6
Provenance
Unknown
Dynasty
27/28/29/30
Schneider code 5.3.1.
Preservation
Feet lost and replaced. Rest excellent.
Comments

Prov. Philip Paterson of Fife Estate, Ex. UK auction house.
Another complete example in Petrie, pl. 113, no. 626; UC4015.
A Godsfather title, tranliteration it-ntjr, refers to a group of elderly priest who were allowed to enter the deepest insides of the temple (contrary to the Wab-priests who were only cleaning the outer parts of a temple).

 
 
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