A similar
shabti and much better coinditioned ( in fact I think from the same batch) is available from the latest TIMELINE
auction where I got mine from the last time
auction.
Since there could be a
shabti for each day, 10 overseer
shabti there can be over 400
shabti's in any burial so not to panic about same or similar ones appearing.
The latest look alike is for nes ptah ( maybe Ptah is sweet), and I think that is correct
Timeline J anuary/Feb 2022 nes Ptah Large
Egyptian Hieroglyphic
Shabti for Nes-Ptah
26th Dynasty, 664-525 BC
A substantial light blue glazed composition
shabti figurine belonging to a
man named Nes-Ptah, a Sameref-priest and prophet of
Isis, born of Tayes-shepset-hert; the mummiform statuette wearing a plain tripartite wig and a braided beard, arms crossed over the chest, holding
pick and hoe with a seed bag over the left shoulder, plain dorsal pillar; the body of the figurine covered in ten horizontal lines of hieroglyphic text of version Chapter 6, 'spell of causing a
shabti to do
work for
his master in the netherworld' from the Book of the Dead; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 240 grams total, 20cm including stand (8").
Fine condition.
ProvenanceFernand Adda
collection, 1920s.
Collection of Mrs
Petra Schamelman, Breitenbach,
Germany.
From the
collection of a Kensington gentleman.
Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Alberto
Maria Pollastrini.
Literature
See Milde, H., '
Shabtis' in Wendrich, W. (ed.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles, 2012; PN I = Ranke, Hermann, Die Ägyptischen Personennamen, Band I, Glückstadt, 1935; Scheider, H.,
Shabtis. An Introduction to the
History of Ancient
Egyptian Funerary Statuettes, Leiden, 1977, Pt.1;
Stewart, H.M.,
Egyptian Shabtis, Shire Egyptology 23, Princes Risborough, 1995.
Footnotes
A Sameref-priest was linked to the
Egyptian funerary rites, especially to the Opening of the Mouth ritual, and to the cult of
Osiris and
his identification with the god Herishef.
26th Dy nasty, 664-525 BC
A substantial light blue glazed composition
shabti figurine belonging to a
man named Nes-Ptah, a Sameref-priest and prophet of
Isis, born of Tayes-shepset-hert; the mummiform statuette wearing a plain tripartite wig and a braided beard, arms crossed over the chest, holding
pick and hoe with a seed bag over the left shoulder, plain dorsal pillar; the body of the figurine covered in ten horizontal lines of hieroglyphic text of version Chapter 6, 'spell of causing a
shabti to do
work for
his master in the netherworld' from the Book of the Dead; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 240 grams total, 20cm including stand (8").
Fine condition.
ProvenanceFernand Adda
collection, 1920s.
Collection ProvenanceFernand Adda
collection, 1920s.
Collection Schamelman, Breitenbach,
Germany.
From the
collection of a Kensington gentleman.
Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Alberto
Maria Pollastrini.
Literature
See Milde, H., '
Shabtis' in Wendrich, W. (ed.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles, 2012; PN I = Ranke, Hermann, Die Ägyptischen Personennamen, Band I, Glückstadt, 1935; Scheider, H.,
Shabtis. An Introduction to the
History of Ancient
Egyptian Funerary Statuettes, Leiden, 1977, Pt.1;
Stewart, H.M.,
Egyptian Shabtis, Shire Egyptology 23, Princes Risborough, 1995.
Footnotes
A Sameref-priest was linked to the
Egyptian funerary rites, especially to the Opening of the Mouth ritual, and to the cult of
Osiris and
his identification with the god Herishef.
Picture of mine and Timelines Mine is the one with air holes in the Hieroglphys making it difficult to read