AN EGYPTIAN BLUE FAIENCE SHABTI FOR NESTANEBISHERU

THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, CIRCA 1045-994 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BLUE FAIENCE SHABTI FOR NESTANEBISHERU
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, CIRCA 1045-994 B.C.

5 5/8 in. (14.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Deir-el Bahri, Thebes, Southern Asasif, Royal Cache, Tomb TT320.
Private collection, the Netherlands.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 25 January 1979, lot 173.
Resandro collection, acquired from the above sale.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 99, no. R-368.

With seven columns of hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Chap. 6 of the Book of the Dead for 'the first great chief of the concubines of Amun and chief of the royal noble ladies'.

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