DYNASTY XVIII, CIRCA 1360-1349 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER FRAGMENTARY ROYAL SHABTI OF AMENOPHIS III (1386-1349 B.C.)
DYNASTY XVIII, CIRCA 1360-1349 B.C.
The King depicted as Osiris holding a crook and flail in his crossed hands, inscribed with six partial columns of an expanded Chapter 6 of the Book of the Dead and a text peculiar to Amenophis III royal shabtis, traces of blue inlay in the inscription
4 1/8 in. (10.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Reputedly from the collection of the late Commander Charles Over of Troutbeck, Harrogate, Yorkshire.

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Lot Essay

The tomb of Amenophis III (KV22) in the Western part of the Valley of the Kings was discovered by Napoleon's Expedition in 1799. Many of the shabtis for Amenophis III in alabaster, granodiorite, ebony or faience left Egypt thereafter, in the early 19th Century (cf. Description de l'Egypte, Antiquités, II, Paris, 1812, pl. 81, fig. 3).

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