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XVIII a. (MISTRA)
There is a little figure in the room to the left of the entrance of the Sparta Museum,
Case 2, No. 998. It is 10 cms. high, and is the ushabti of a priestess. Round the figure
run texts, but the whole is so worn and dirty that they are almost indecipherable. The
original colour, which may have been blue, has now turned to an uneasy black.
The figure was discovered by the "Phylax", Gramarnis, in the hands of a peasant
at Mistra—the Byzantine city four miles west of Sparta on a spur of Taygetos—
possibly the ancient Harpleia. The man declared that it had been in his family for
generations, but he had no knowledge whence it originally came. If this is true it is
probably not a forgery, but belongs to the XXVIth Dynasty, though whether it was
found at Mistra or Sparta or indeed in Greece at all it is, of course, impossible to say.
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There is a little figure in the room to the left of the entrance of the Sparta Museum,
Case 2, No. 998. It is 10 cms. high, and is the ushabti of a priestess. Round the figure
run texts, but the whole is so worn and dirty that they are almost indecipherable. The
original colour, which may have been blue, has now turned to an uneasy black.
The figure was discovered by the "Phylax", Gramarnis, in the hands of a peasant
at Mistra—the Byzantine city four miles west of Sparta on a spur of Taygetos—
possibly the ancient Harpleia. The man declared that it had been in his family for
generations, but he had no knowledge whence it originally came. If this is true it is
probably not a forgery, but belongs to the XXVIth Dynasty, though whether it was
found at Mistra or Sparta or indeed in Greece at all it is, of course, impossible to say.
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