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Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 99, no. R-367.
With a single column of hieroglyphs reading 'Illuminate the Osiris, the gods wife, Maatkare'.
For another, very similar, shabti for Maatkare, see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. O.C.849. Maatkare was the daughter of Pinudjem I and Queen Henuttawy I. She was God's Wife of Amen, an incredibly important position. Her tomb, including her shabtis, was discovered by 1881; her body was accompanied by the mummy of her pet baboon (which at some point was erroneously thought to be the body of an infant).
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 99, no. R-367.
With a single column of hieroglyphs reading 'Illuminate the Osiris, the gods wife, Maatkare'.
For another, very similar, shabti for Maatkare, see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. O.C.849. Maatkare was the daughter of Pinudjem I and Queen Henuttawy I. She was God's Wife of Amen, an incredibly important position. Her tomb, including her shabtis, was discovered by 1881; her body was accompanied by the mummy of her pet baboon (which at some point was erroneously thought to be the body of an infant).