12. 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
Worker shabti in vibrant, glossy, cobalt-blue faience, the details and hieroglyphs in black. Mould-made and of typical mummiform, she stands arms crossed at her chest, left over right, and with...
Worker shabti in vibrant, glossy, cobalt-blue faience, the details and hieroglyphs in black. Mould-made and of typical mummiform, she stands arms crossed at her chest, left over right, and with a hoe in each hand, wearing a striated tripartite wig. A seed bag on her back below the wig. The inscription, arranged in vertical columns which run 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. Her burial was found in the Royal cache at Deir el-Bahri (Tomb DB320), which was discovered on 6th July 1881.
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. Her burial was found in the Royal cache at Deir el-Bahri (Tomb DB320), which was discovered on 6th July 1881.
Provenance
Tomb DB320, Deir el-Bahri, Egypt; discovered 6th July 1881Jean Thomassen (b.1949) 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 liane Aubert, Statuettes Égyptiennes Chaouabtis Ouchebtis (Paris, 1973), pp.141, 144-146, fig.67There are two of the shabtis of Princess Nes-ta-neb-ascheru at the British Museum, London, UK, inventory numbers EA 24398 and 30402
Also see W. Seipel, Agypten...4000 Jahre Jenseitsglaube (Linz 1898) no.207.
