Is this a genuine piece: Section 2 , page 3

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holygrail asks

20th August 06

If this "shabti" he bought on eBay is genuine.

Two things I'd like to say.

From the general outline on can see I think one can be pretty sure the thing is not genuine.

Secondly, when sellers on eBay present such lousy pictures, you can safely assume that it's deliberate.

Have a look here after you have read below.

All one needs to do is what the seller could have done; save the pic to your pc and apply some lightening in any simple photo-editor.

Then one can see!!

An indeed it is now clear; not a genuine shabti.

Look at that shape, very common in fake shabtis; and look at the nonesense which is suposed to be hieroglyphs.

Here is the result of a quick look at eBay today.

There are very few genuine shabtis there.

These are some of the fakes.

There is a passing similarity in form and content don't you think? (Apart from the few really grotesque fantasies and the couple of slightly better fakes.)

I jave left the pic unaltered; if you cannot quite see because the pic is blurred or dark, that's because the seller would prefer that you do not see!