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Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
H. A. Schlögl and A. Brodbeck, Ägyptische Totenfiguren aus Öffentlichen und Privaten Sammlungen der Schweiz, Freiburg and Göttingen, 1990, p. 90, no. 33.
Inscribed with five rows of script over his sides and one column on the over-fold of the ankle-length robe of the living tied at the waist, reciting the deceased’s name and the standard New Kingdom formula from Chapter Six of the Book of the Dead.
For a period in the late 18th-19th Dynasties, shabti figures wearing the dress of daily life were introduced. They showed the owner dressed in the fashion of the day with heavily pleated garments, shawls, skirts, duplex wigs and sandals. Some examples of this type show a further departure from tradition depicting the deceased holding divine attributes, such as the djed pillar and the knot of Isis, instead of the customary agricultural implements. This example, however, adheres to the norm of holding two hoes. From the end of the New Kingdom this type of shabti in everyday dress became the usual format for the overseer shabti. For similar shabtis wearing the costume of the living cf. H. D. Schneider, Shabtis, II, Netherlands, 1977, pp. 80-85, nos 3.2.5.1 – 3.2.5.16, pls 30-32.
The name Keni with the same spelling is listed in H. Ranke, Ägyptischen Personennamen, Bd. I, p. 335, no. 6.
Curator H.A. Schlögl once considered this shabti for inclusion in the 1978 Basel exhibition Geschenk des Nils. However, the shabti for Kasa from the same collection was selected instead, cf. H. Schlögl, Geschenk des Nils. Ägyptische Kunstwerke aus Schweizer Besitz, Basel, 1978, p. 61, no. 192.
H. A. Schlögl and A. Brodbeck, Ägyptische Totenfiguren aus Öffentlichen und Privaten Sammlungen der Schweiz, Freiburg and Göttingen, 1990, p. 90, no. 33.
Inscribed with five rows of script over his sides and one column on the over-fold of the ankle-length robe of the living tied at the waist, reciting the deceased’s name and the standard New Kingdom formula from Chapter Six of the Book of the Dead.
For a period in the late 18th-19th Dynasties, shabti figures wearing the dress of daily life were introduced. They showed the owner dressed in the fashion of the day with heavily pleated garments, shawls, skirts, duplex wigs and sandals. Some examples of this type show a further departure from tradition depicting the deceased holding divine attributes, such as the djed pillar and the knot of Isis, instead of the customary agricultural implements. This example, however, adheres to the norm of holding two hoes. From the end of the New Kingdom this type of shabti in everyday dress became the usual format for the overseer shabti. For similar shabtis wearing the costume of the living cf. H. D. Schneider, Shabtis, II, Netherlands, 1977, pp. 80-85, nos 3.2.5.1 – 3.2.5.16, pls 30-32.
The name Keni with the same spelling is listed in H. Ranke, Ägyptischen Personennamen, Bd. I, p. 335, no. 6.
Curator H.A. Schlögl once considered this shabti for inclusion in the 1978 Basel exhibition Geschenk des Nils. However, the shabti for Kasa from the same collection was selected instead, cf. H. Schlögl, Geschenk des Nils. Ägyptische Kunstwerke aus Schweizer Besitz, Basel, 1978, p. 61, no. 192.