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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR NESKHONSU

THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI, 1070-945 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR NESKHONSU
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI, 1070-945 B.C.
Blue in color, depicted mummiform with the arms folded over the chest, holding agricultural implements in each hand, a seed sack between the shoulders, wearing a striated tripartite wig, inscribed with five lines of hieroglyphs for Neskhonsu, including excerpts from Chapter VI of The Book of the Dead
7 1/16 in. (18 cm.) high

Provenance

The Phil Berg Collection, 1971.

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*Please note that this lot is being sold by an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization Certificate.

Lot Essay

Neskhonsu was a daughter of Smendes II and niece of Pinudjem II, both of whom were successive High Priests of Amen at Thebes, who ruled that part of Egypt during the Twenty-First Dynasty. As a member of Pinudjem's harem, she became his First Wife and bore him four children.
For a similar example see no. 53, pp. 103-106 in Janes, Shabtis, A Private View.

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