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Lot Essay
Djehutymose (or Thutmose) was a royal scribe and overseer of cattle during the 19th Dynasty. He is known from his large granite anthropomorphic sarcophagus, now in the Cairo Museum, that was found together with several shabtis at Tûna el-Gebel in the early 20th century (see pp. 174-175 in Porter and Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings). Another baboon-headed shabti, with the same inscription, appeared at auction in London in 1989; and a companion to the two, with the jackal-headed Duamutef and the same inscription, is in the Toledo Museum of Art (see pl. 72 in Hornemann, Types of Ancient Egyptian Statuary, I, and pp. 265 and 307 in Schneider, Shabtis, an Introduction to the History of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Statuettes with a Catalogue of the Collection of Shabtis in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, I).
According to Taylor (pp. 132-133 in Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt), "a few other animal-headed shabtis are known, but a different explanation for these is required, since they were inscribed with the names and titles of officials of the New Kingdom. The Overseer of Cattle of Amun Thutmose (19th Dynasty), whose tomb was at Tuna el-Gebel, had shabti figures with baboon and jackal heads, which were probably part of a set representing the Sons of Horus." Each set would have included the baboon headed Hapy, as here; the jackal-headed Duamutef, as in Toledo, the human-headed Imsety, and the falcon-headed Qebehsenuef.
According to Taylor (pp. 132-133 in Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt), "a few other animal-headed shabtis are known, but a different explanation for these is required, since they were inscribed with the names and titles of officials of the New Kingdom. The Overseer of Cattle of Amun Thutmose (19th Dynasty), whose tomb was at Tuna el-Gebel, had shabti figures with baboon and jackal heads, which were probably part of a set representing the Sons of Horus." Each set would have included the baboon headed Hapy, as here; the jackal-headed Duamutef, as in Toledo, the human-headed Imsety, and the falcon-headed Qebehsenuef.