Description : Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, ca. 1070 to 712 BCE. This is a late period ushabti (shabti), made of a green faience and painted with black line details, including hieroglyphics and an Eye of Horus. Size: 1.3 W x 3.7 H (3.3 cm x 9.4 cm)
Ushabti were placed in tombs as grave goods, created to do manual labor for the deceased in the afterlife. As a result, they are frequently depicted with arms crossed, holding hoes and baskets. By the Third Intermediate period, this practice had become so necessary and elaborate that some tombs contained one worker for every day of the year and thirty-six overseers, each responsible for ten laborers. Workers like this one are from that period of enormous proliferation, and are some of our best surviving insights into ancient Egyptian funerary practices.
Provenance: Ex-Private Ventura County, CA collection
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n° 4A Titre : Egyptian Ushabti Condition report : Lower legs repaired. Artemis Gallery, Salle de vente
, Louisville, US🔓Accès libre sans carte bancaire. Titre de la vente : Holiday Sale - Ancient | Asian | Ethnographic Date de la vente : 08/12/2016🔓Accès libre sans carte bancaire. Référence de l'enchère
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