AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR BEK-EN-MUT
PROPERTY FROM THE HARER FAMILY TRUST COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR BEK-EN-MUT

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

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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR BEK-EN-MUT
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, 1070-945 B.C.
Depicted mummiform with the arms crossing at the chest, light blue in color, with details in black, including the eyes, a fillet in her tripartite wig and a hoe in each fisted hand, a wide basket on the back, with a column of hieroglyphs reading, "The Osiris Bek-en-Mut, Justified"
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Emile Brugsch (1842-1930), curator of the Bulaq Museum, Cairo.
Col. Anthony J. Drexel, Jr. (1864-1934), Philadelphia.
Drexel Institute Museum, Philadelphia, 1895.
Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1916 (Inventory no. 16.384).
with Blumka Gallery, New York, circa 1958.
with Superior Gallery, Los Angeles.
Literature
G.D. Scott, III, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 152c.
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, 1997-2011.

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