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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carl Wilmont, post: 8009372, member: 75496&quot;]Nice write-up, [USER=74863]@Collecting Nut[/USER]!&nbsp; Mine has an inscription visible, but I don&#039;t know what it says.&nbsp; Are there any readers of hieroglyphs out there who can discern anything from what is seen here?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/ushabti-2019-front-jpg.1126925/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/ushabti-2019-back-jpg.1126926/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Faience Ushabti - 27th Dynasty or Later Style (525 - 332 BC)</b></p><p>Ushabti wearing tripartite wig and false beard and carrying a hoe and pick. Seed sack slung over left shoulder. T-Band of hieroglyphic inscription spanning the waist and continuing down the front of the leg case. Back pillar. 12 cm long by 3.1 cm wide by 2.2 cm deep.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>To add a coin, here&#039;s one struck in Egypt in a later period.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2021-7-4_23-26-32-png.1327033/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ptolemaic Kingdom. Ptolemy II Philadelphos (285-246 BC).</p><p>AR Tetradrachm, 12.42 g. Alexandria mint.</p><p>Diademed head of Ptolemy right, wearing aegis. / ΠTOΛEMAIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; ΣT, monogram and ΠT to left, shield to right.</p><p>Svoronos 538; SNG Copenhagen 103.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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