GREEN FAIENCE USHABTI OF PT-ABU-MEH

GREEN FAIENCE USHABTI OF PT-ABU-MEH

Treasurer of the king of Lower Egypt, royal acquaintance, nicknamed Psamtek-Semb, son of AA-KHA and Tawepet-Nephret; mummiform, wearing tripartite wig and pharaonic ‘false’ beard, holding pick and hoe in opposite hands, hieroglyphic text in eleven horizontal lines, back pillar, seed back over his left shoulder

Ex priv. coll. J.J.M., Netherlands 1950-1992, H.W.S. Netherlands inherited 2000.
H. 16,2 cm. Intact, small chip from base. Mounted

Late Period, 26th Dyn., c 664-525 BC

Publ. Sotheby’s London, 10th July 1992. Lot 567; Christie’s London,
6th July 1994, lot 83