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| CIVILIZATION | Egyptian |
| PERIOD | Third Intermediate |
| DATE | 21st Dynasty, 1070-945 B.C. |
| MATERIAL | Faience |
| MOUNTED | Yes |
Bright-blue in color with purplish-black details, depicted mummiform with the arms folded over the chest, holding a hoe in each hand, a seed bag on his back, wearing a tripartite lappet-wig, with a frontal column of hieroglyphic text reading “The Osiris, the priest of Amun-Re, king of the gods, Nespaneferher, true of voice."
Formerly in the DuBois Collection, excavated in Egypt between 1900-1907. The DuBois collection was loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1920s-1930s, then to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts where it was exhibited for another 20 years until its final exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Man. Several works from their collection remain at the Met Museum, the MFA, and the Museum of Man.
Exhibited: Museum of Man, San Diego, CA, 1967-1968, inv. no. M215.
Christie's, London, 3 July 2018, lot 25.
Further information available upon request.
Schneider, H.; Shabtis, nos. 4.3.1.50-51, for a Nespaneferher shabti.
Egyptian Museum, Cairo, inventory no. JE36742 for a block statue of Nespaneferher, found at Karnak.
British Museum, museum no. EA36257, for a Nespaneferher shabti.
Toledo Museum of Art, accession no. 1906.43.
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| CATEGORY | Egyptian |
| PERIOD | Third Intermediate |
| DATE | 21st Dynasty, 1070-945 B.C. |
| MATERIAL | |
| MOUNTED | Yes |