Egyptian Third Intermediate Faience Overseer Ushabti- Lot 7, Auction 1/7/2020
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Egyptian Third Intermediate Faience Overseer Ushabti- Lot 7, Auction 1/7/2020

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Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, 21st to 25th Dynasty, ca. 1069 to 653 BCE. A mold-formed faience overseer ushabti coated in a bright blue glaze. The figure is mummiform and wears a tripartite wig while holding two picks and a seed bag across the back. Arm bands, a large pectoral, and facial details are all presented in applied black pigment, and a single column of hieroglyphic text is shown along the legs. The top hieroglyph, that of an ox tongue, signifies that this shabti has the designation of “overseer,” perhaps of other workers tending to the sacred fields of Osiris in the afterlife. Size: 1.5″ W x 4.55″ H (3.8 cm x 11.6 cm).

Condition: Surface wear and abrasions commensurate with age, small nicks to feet, body, arms, head, and verso, with fading to some glaze and hieroglyphic text, and light roughness across most surfaces. Light earthen deposits throughout.

Provenance: The Dere Family Collection, New York, USA, assembled 1970’s-2000’s; ex-Dr. Sid Port Collection, California, USA, acquired in 1980’s

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