LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE FAIENCE SHABTI FOR TJANHEBU
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
On integral plinth, wearing a tripartite wig and plaited false beard, holding a pick and hoe with a seed bag over his left shoulder, with hieroglyphs from Chapter 6 of the Book, inscribed for the high official 'Tjanhebu, born of Tanefertiti'
7 ¾ in. (19.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Importante y Excepcional Selección de Pinturas, Muebles, Objectos de Arte y Antigüedades, Roldan and Cia, Buenos Aires, 9 June 1981, lot 247; where acquired by Enrique Nagel, Buenos Aires.
Acquired from the above by the current owner.

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Lot Essay

The tomb of Tjanhebu, overseer of the Royal ships, was excavated in 1900 at Saqqara by A. Barsanti and G. Maspero. For another shabti for the high official, see J. L. Haynes, Privately Owned Egyptian Antiquities in Ontario: Fascicle I Shabtis, Ontario, 1983, pp. 28-29.

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