LIGHT GREEN FAIENCE USHABTI HORUDJA

LIGHT GREEN FAIENCE USHABTI HORUDJA

For the priest of goddess Neith, born to Shedet. Mummiform, wearing striated tripartite wig and pharaonic beard, holfing pick and hoe in his opposite hands, backpillar and seed bag; nine horizontal lines of hieroglyphic text

Ex priv. coll. J.J.M., Netherlands 1950-1992, H.W.S. Netherlands inherited in 2000.
H. 24,1 cm. From Hawara. Repaired and mounted

Late Period, 30th dyn., c. 380 – 343 BC

Publ. Sotheby’s London, 10th July 1992. Lot 558; Christie’s London,
6th July 1994, lot 84. Cf. H.D. Scneider, Shabtis, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden 1977, p. 178, no. 5.3.1.134; J.F. Aubert, Statuettes Egyptiennes, Paris 1974, pp.261 ff, pl 65 no. 154