LATE DYNASTY XVIII, CIRCA 1352-1336 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN QUARTZITE UPPER PART OF A SHABTI OF AKHENATEN
LATE DYNASTY XVIII, CIRCA 1352-1336 B.C.
Wearing a nemes-headdress with 'plait' down his back and uraeus carved on front, with long beard, holding a flail and crook in his crossed hands, with pierced ear lobes and lips bearing faint traces of red pigment, his faintly modelled eyes, brow and hairline detailed in black
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high

Provenance

'Per-neb' collection, acquired in Egypt during the 1920s-early 1940s.

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Sale room notice

The estimate should read £100,000-150,000, and not as printed in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

This shabti, still with traces of its original colouring, is not an idealized face of an Osirian servant, but a contemplative portrait of a king who believed himself the incarnation of the Aten on earth.

Cf. G. T. Martin, The Royal Tomb at El-Amarna, The Rock Tombs of El-Amarna, VII, I, The Objects, London, 1974, no. 135 for the type.

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