Lot 55
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE SHABTI FOR GENERAL WEN-DJEBAN-EN-DJED
PROPERTY FROM THE HARER FAMILY TRUST COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE SHABTI FOR GENERAL WEN-DJEBAN-EN-DJED

THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, 1070-945 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE SHABTI FOR GENERAL WEN-DJEBAN-EN-DJED
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, 1070-945 B.C.
Depicted mummiform with the hands folded over the chest, wearing a tripartite headcloth, with a single column of hieroglyphs down the front, reading: "The Osiris, the Great One/Magnate of Ten"
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) high
Provenance
with Superior Gallery, Los Angeles, 1980.
Literature
G.D. Scott, III, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 59B, p. 102.
Exhibited
San Bernardino, University Art Gallery, 1992; Arizona State University Museum, 1993; and San Antonio Museum of Art, 1993-1996; Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection.
San Bernardino, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, 1997-2010.

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Lot Essay

Solid cast bronze shabtis were popular during the 21st dynasty. Arguably the most important examples made for King Psuesennes I, who ruled the Delta. The king along with his general Wen-djeban-en-djed were both buried at the royal necropolis at Tanis (p. 102 in Scott, op. cit.)

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