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LOT 0007
Egyptian Glazed Composition Shabti for Ka-Nefer
30TH DYNASTY, 380-343 B.C.
4 3/4 in. (78 grams, 12.2 cm high).
Modelled mummiform, hands crossed in front of chest holding pick and hoe, seed bag over shoulder, wearing tripartite wig and false beard, T-shaped arrangement of hieroglyphic inscription to the midriff and lower body; plinth base and plain back pillar to reverse.
Provenance
Private collection, New York, USA, early 1980s.
Literature
Cf. Schneider, H.D., Shabtis. An Introduction to the History of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Statuettes with a Catalogue of the Collection of Shabtis in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, 3 Volumes, Leiden, 1977, Vol. 2, p.211 (no. 5.3.2.25) and Vol. 3, p.76, for another shabti of Ka-nefer.
Footnotes
The inscription informs us that Ka-nefer was a wener- priest and scribe of Ptah. His mother's name was Isit-reshuty. He was buried at Saqqara.
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