About the lot N° 332
Title : An Egyptian Blue Glazed Composition Shabti And An Egyptian Blue Glazed Composition Shabti, Period : 2
Notes : Provenance:Peter Negus CollectionLiterature: For the Nes-perher-an shabti cf. L. Aubert, Les statuettes funéraires de la Deuxième Cachette à Deir el-Bahari (Paris 1998), p.74, no.22. and H.D. Schneider, Vol. II of the shabtis in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, (Leiden 1977), p.128-9, no.4.3.1.48-49. Other examples are represented in the British Museum, University College London (Petrie, no. 276), Cairo, the Louvre and Lisbon. From his coffin (in Suez Museum), and his Book of the Dead (Bodleian Library, Oxford, presented by Revd V.S. Skrine in March 1913, published JEA 5, 1918, pp. 24-35), Nes-perher-an is shown to also have the titles of ‘God’s Father of Amun’, ‘Wab Priest of Khonsu’, and Scribe of Works in the Temple of Amun’. His mummy in Cairo shows him to have been a hunchback suffering from Pott’s Disease. Cf. G. Elliot Smith and W.R. Dawson, Egyptian Mummies, (London 1924), fig. 62.For the Amunhotep shabti cf. L. Aubert, Les statuettes funéraires de la Deuxième Cachette à Deir el-Bahari, (Paris 1998), p.54, no.5, Col. Pl. II. Other examples are represented in Cairo, the Louvre, Berlin, Lisbon, etc. His shabti box is in Cairo. From his coffin (in Washington), and his two Books of the Dead in Cairo, Amunhotep is shown to also have the titles of ‘God’s Father of Amon-Re’, ‘Wab Priest of Mut’, and Scribe of the young army recruits’.Bonhams 3, auctioneer, London, UK
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Sale title : Antiquities
Sale date : 26 Oct 2007
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