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AN EGYPTIAN BLUE GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI OF THE DIVINE ADORATRICE HENTTAWY
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AN EGYPTIAN BLUE GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI OF THE DIVINE ADORATRICE HENTTAWY

DYNASTY XXI, CIRCA 940 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BLUE GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI OF THE DIVINE ADORATRICE HENTTAWY
DYNASTY XXI, CIRCA 940 B.C.
Bearing six lines of text from Chapter VI of the Book of the Dead, her name and title within a cartouche, 6 in. (15.2 cm.) high; and two other glazed composition shabtis, one mounted, 4th-1st Century B.C., 4 in. (10.1 cm.) high max. (3)
Provenance
German private collection: acquired in circa 1965 from the Kropatschek collection, Helgoland, Germany (item one) and acquired from private collections in circa 1955 (items two and three).
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Lot Essay

Cf. J-F. Aubert, Statuettes Égyptiennes, Paris, 1974, pl. 31, figs. 68-69 for the type. Henttawy was the daughter of Pinedjem II and his second wife, Isetemkhebi. Similar shabtis were found in the Ramesseum circa 1845. However, for a detailed history of this period and other known Henttawys connected with the Theban high priests of Amun cf. K. A. Kitchen, The Third Intermediate Period, Warminster, 1973, nos. 41-47, p. 57(D).

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