Egyptian shabti for Princess Nes-ta-neb-ascheru, Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, 1069-945 BC
Faience
Height: 14.6cm
12366
£ 9,800
Further images
Faience mould-made worker shabti with vibrant, glossy, cobalt-blue glaze, the details and hieroglyphs in black. Mummiform, she stands arms crossed at her chest, left over right, a hoe in each hand, wearing a striated tripartite wig. A seed bag hangs below the bottom of her wig on the back. The inscription, arranged in vertical columns running around her lower body, identifies the owner as the Princess Nes-ta-neb-ascheru, Chief Lady of the Harem of Amun. Intact, a few areas of faults to the glaze from the manufacturing process.
The Princess was the daughter of the High Priest of Amun, Pinedjem II, who ruled as de facto Pharaoh of Upper Egypt from 985-969 BC. His tomb, containing close member of his family including Nes-ta-neb-ascheru, was found in the Royal cache at Deir el-Bahri (Tomb DB320), discovered by archaeologists on 6th July 1881. Two shabtis for this Princess are in the British Museum, London, UK, inventory numbers EA 24398 and 30402.
The Princess was the daughter of the High Priest of Amun, Pinedjem II, who ruled as de facto Pharaoh of Upper Egypt from 985-969 BC. His tomb, containing close member of his family including Nes-ta-neb-ascheru, was found in the Royal cache at Deir el-Bahri (Tomb DB320), discovered by archaeologists on 6th July 1881. Two shabtis for this Princess are in the British Museum, London, UK, inventory numbers EA 24398 and 30402.
Provenance
Tomb DB320, Deir el-Bahri, Egypt; discovered 6th July 1881Jean Thomassen (b.1949), Heilo, the Netherlands
Charles Ede Ltd, London, UK; acquired from the above 16th February 1996
Michael Lousada, acquired from the above 2nd April 1997
Charles Ede Ltd, London, UK; acquired from the above 7th September 2009
Private collection K.M., London, UK; acquired 1st April 2010
Private collection B.H., Dublin, Ireland; gifted from the above
Literature
Compare Jacques-F. Aubert and Liliane Aubert, Statuettes Égyptiennes. Chaouabtis, Ouchebtis (Paris, 1973), pp.141, 144-146, fig.67Also W. Seipel, Ägypten. Götter, Gräber und die Kunst. 4000 Jahre Jenseitsglaube(Linz 1898) no.207
Publications
Charles Ede Ltd, Small Sculpture from Ancient Egypt XXIII (London, 1996), no.13
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