Large Egyptian Painted Terracotta Overseer Shabti, 19th Dynasty, Ramesside Period, c. 1292-1085 B.C.

(Egyptian Overseer)

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Item No.
31.36553
Culture
Egypt, Ramesside Period, c. 1292-1085 B.C. 
Item Details.
Large terracotta overseer, wearing the trepartide wig and a kilt, holding two flails, details painted in black and red. A column of hieroglyphs painted in black on the front apron reads:

 sHD Wsir wr-djw DHwtj-ms mAa-xrw meaning: “Illuminating of Osiris, the great one of five, Thutmose, justified.”
The title wr-djw ‘great one of five’ designates the high priest of Thot at Hermopolis Magna. Several shabtis dating to the 19th dynasty are known which belong to one or more high priests of Thot, called Thutmose. The owner was probably buried at Tuna el-Gebel, the necropolis of Hermopupolis Magna .

J.-F. Aubert/ L. Aubert, Statuettes égyptiennes, chaouabtis, ouchebtis, Paris 1974, pp. 122-123. W. M. F. Petrie, Shabtis, London 1935, pl. XXXV, no. 240. M. J. Raven, A transom-window from Tuna el-Gebel, in: OMRO 69, 1989, pp. 51-64. H. Schneider, Shabtis. An introduction to the history of ancient Egyptian funerary statuettes, Leiden 1977, I, p. 206. R. Weill, Quelques types de figurines funéraires des XIXe et XXe dynasties, in: Mon. Piot 25, 1921/2, pp. 419-438.

Provenance: UK private collection, acquired in Belgium prior to 1983.

Display stand included

** Comes with a certificate from the Art Loss Register:

Size
15.7 cm H - 6 1/8 inches
Material
Terracotta 
Condition
Minor chip to one side, otherwise intact  
Categories
• Egyptian Shabtis
Price.
US$ 3200
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