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Description : * AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD SHABTI FOR LADY HUY WITH
AN ANTHROPOID COFFIN
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH-19TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1550-1196 B.C.
The shabti in typical mummiform posture, holding two hoes, wearing
a striped tripartite wig and broad collar, the face finely rendered with
painted features, the legs with six rows of hieroglyphs for the ‘Lady of
the house Huy, justified’ with the standard shabti text from the Book
of the Dead, the wood coffin possibly usurped, with four horizontal
bands around the lid and base, a column of hieroglyphic text down
the front of the lid with an offering formula to Osiris ‘Lord of Abydos’,
some black and white pigment remaining, the foot of the lid with ‘112’
painted in red, 21.3cm long (2)
Provenance:
The Harer Family Trust Collection.
With Charles Ede Ltd, London, 2003. Accompanied by a copy of the
invoice.
Elsa McLellan (née Mustaki) Collection, inherited from Gustave
Mustaki, Alexandria, imported into London after 1949.
Exhibited:
San Bernardino, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, 2003- 2011.
Literature:
This type of miniature coffin for a shabti mimics full-size anthropoid
coffins with ‘the body of the coffin painted white to simulate the
mummy bandages with a mask and collar over the body’: S. D’Auria,
P. Lacovara, and C.H. Roehrig, Mummies and Magic: the Funerary
Arts of Ancient Egypt, 1993, p. 136, fig. 73 for a very similar example.
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