AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR NES-AMUN
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DANIEL SMITH
AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR NES-AMUN

THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 1069-664 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI FOR NES-AMUN
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 1069-664 B.C.
Blue in color with details in black, depicted mummiform with the arms crossing at the chest, a hoe in each fisted hand, wearing a striated tripartite wig, a small basket on the back, with columns of hieroglyphs, reading: "Instructions of the Osiris Nes-Amun (?), son of Mut-beneret (?), Justified (?): O ye Shabti"
5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Reportedly with Drouot, Paris, 1960s.
with The Beard Galleries, Minneapolis.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 1978.

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