AN EGYPTIAN WOOD OVERSEER SHABTI FOR HER-NESY(?)
AN EGYPTIAN WOOD OVERSEER SHABTI FOR HER-NESY(?)

NEW KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XIX-XXI, 1307-945 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD OVERSEER SHABTI FOR HER-NESY(?)
NEW KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XIX-XXI, 1307-945 B.C.
Wearing the characteristic kilt and triangular apron, depicted mummiform, the arms folded at the chest, the hands emerging from his vestment, holding an incised hoe in each hand, a seed bag along his back, wearing a bipartite headcloth painted black, the large almond-shaped sfumato eyes outlined in black, a single column of hieroglyphs along the apron, reading: "Instructions of the Osiris, the Chief Offering-Bringer Her-nesy(?)
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high
来源
Private Collection, England.
with R.W. Richardson, London, 23 April 1964.

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This lot is accompanied by the original invoice from R.W. Richardson and a letter from P.R.S. Moorey of the Ashmolean Museum dated 16 November 1962.