An Egyptian bright blue glazed shabti for Meret-Amun, 21st Dynasty, Thebes, Deir el Bahri Cache II, ca. 990 - 970 BCE Jewelry - Gemstones was the god of wine

was the god of wine

This example is typical of the type

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 decoration employs an outline technique with figures that are freer in posture and composition and more elegant

The body of the bird is formed from two separate sheets soldered together that open at the tail

An Egyptian bright blue glazed shabti for Meret-Amun, 21st Dynasty, Thebes, Deir el Bahri Cache II, ca. 990 - 970 BCE Jewelry - Gemstones was the god of wineThe 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