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LOT 0025
Egyptian Faience Shabti for Nesy-Amun
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, 1069-943 B.C.
3/8 in. (75 grams, 11.1 cm).
Modelled in deep blue faience with applied black detailing to the hair, eyes, seed bag, agricultural tools and three bands of hieroglyphs to the lower body reading giving the title and name of 'Nesy-Amun, Justified'; very rare.
ProvenanceEuropean collection, latterly in private UK collection, 1990.
Read by John Taylor at the British Museum on 27 February 2009.
Accompanied by a copy of a handwritten information card and a print out of the Christie's example.
Cf. Christie's New York, 11 December 2014, lot 64, for another example, which sold for US $7,500.00; Aubert, L., Les statuettes funéraires de la Deuxième Cachette à Deir el-Bahari, Paris, 1998, p. 71, no. 19 and pl. X, for discussion and examples of Nesy-Amun's shabtis.
FootnotesNesy-Amun was the Fourth Prophet of Amun in the 21st Dynasty. The mummy was recovered from the priest's hole, cache II, Deir el-Bahari.
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