164 - A wooden statue with faint traces of stucco and blue pigment, depicting the goddess Nephthys kneeling, wearing a long sheath dress and a long, three-part wig topped by a column that supported a neb basket.

A wooden statue with faint traces of stucco and blue pigment, depicting the goddess Nephthys kneeling, wearing a long sheath dress and a long, three-part wig topped by a column that supported a neb basket. She extends her right hand toward her mouth as a sign of intercession and stands on a rectangular base. Egypt, Ptolemaic period, 332–30 B.C. H.: 36 cm (neb basket missing) Note: Nephthys is a funerary deity who protects canopic jars and sarcophagi. Expert: Daniel Lebeurrier