AN EGYPTIAN BRIGHT BLUE FAIENCE SHABTI FOR TAYUHERET

THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI, CIRCA 1069-945 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRIGHT BLUE FAIENCE SHABTI FOR TAYUHERET
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI, CIRCA 1069-945 B.C.
Wearing striated tripartite wig, arms crossed holding two hoes, seed bag across back, with single column of hieroglyphs, reading, 'May the Osiris Tayuheret be illuminated'
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Collection of the Italian-Russian Egyptologist Prince Boris de Rachewiltz (1926-1997).
Private collection, France; acquired from the above in 1963 and thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

The high quality of this bright blue faience shabti suggests that it belonged to Tayuheret, wife of the High Priest of Amun Masaharta, son of Pinedjem I. For a discussion on Tayuheret, cf. J.-F. and L. Aubert, Statuettes Egyptiennes, Paris, 1974, p. 143.

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