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| CIVILIZATION | Egyptian |
| PERIOD | Third Intermediate |
| DATE | 21st Dynasty, 1070-945 B.C. |
| MATERIAL | Faience |
| MOUNTED | Yes |
Egyptian Shabti for Nestanebisheru
Third Intermediate, 21st Dynasty, 1070-945 B.C.
Turquoise-blue glazed faience composition shabti for Nestanebisheru, daughter of the high priest of Amun Pinodjem II and Neskhons, with details in black, depicted mummiform with arms crossed at the chest, holding a hoe in each hand, a seed-bag at the back, with eight vertical columns of hieroglyphs from Chapter 6b of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, reading "Illuminate the Osiris, the first great chief of the concubines of Amun and chief of the royal noble ladies...Nestanebisheru, true of voice. She says: O you shabti! If one calls...if one conscripts, if one assigns the Osiris Nestanebisheru...to cultivate fields, to irrigate riverbanks...to transport sand of the East to the West and vice versa...once obstacles have been removed from a man at his du-...ties, if the Osiris Nestanebisheru is summoned...to do any work that is to be done in the necropolis at any time, “I will do (it)! Here (I am)!".
Like other shabtis from the 21st Dynasty, this shabti comes from the well known royal cache at Deir el-Bahri, found near Thebes, discovered in the 1870s.
Deir el-Bahri, Royal Cache I.
Deaccessioned by the Drexel Institute of Art, Philadelphia, 1916.
Charles Ede Ltd., stock number E7081, sold 21 February 1979.
Property from the Harer Family Trust Collection.
Formerly in an American Private Collection.
cf. Aubert, J.F. and L.; Statuettes égyptiennes: Chaouabtis, Ouchebti, Paris, 1974, pp. 141-145.
British Museum, accession no. EA16052, for a parallel.
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| CATEGORY | Egyptian |
| PERIOD | Third Intermediate |
| DATE | 21st Dynasty, 1070-945 B.C. |
| MATERIAL | |
| MOUNTED | Yes |
