{"title":"Egyptian Ushabtis","description":"\u003cp\u003eUshabtis were placed in Egyptian tombs to labor for the deceased in the afterlife. Ours are in faience, wood and stone, New Kingdom to Ptolemaic Period; where a figure is inscribed, the owner's name and titles are read in the entry. Each comes with its collection history and a certificate of authenticity.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"egyptian-deep-blue-faience-ushabti","title":"Egyptian Deep Blue Faience Ushabti","description":"\u003cp\u003eThird Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, circa 988-955 B.C. from a cache at Dei el-Bahari\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe beautiful standing magic servant figure with a frontal rows of hieroglyphic text which translates ‘Illuminate the Osiris, ’ and carrying two hoes, wearing the seshed fillet and carrying seed-bags across back, one with neb-shaped seed-bag and details in added black.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSize 5-7\/8 inches (14.5cm) high; 6-3\/4 inches (17.1cm) on block base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProvenance: Bodo Bleß (1940-2022) collection, Berlin, acquired from Charles Ede Ltd., London, March 1972.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art for Eternity","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47658647847226,"sku":"15761","price":8500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0775\/5120\/6714\/files\/15761bl.jpg?v=1707536318"},{"product_id":"egyptian-faience-ushabti-for-the-overseer-of-the-antechamber-hor-ir-aa","title":"Egyptian faience ushabti for the Overseer of the Antechamber 'Hor-Ir-Aa'","description":"\u003cp\u003eLate Period, 26th Dynasty, circa 610-570 B.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fine molded mummiform servant figure holding hoe and sickle for work in the afterlife and with tripartite wig and strong facial characteristics. Seven rows of hieroglyphics from -The Book of the Dead- are visible across the front.  It is inscribed for -The servant To- who is called 'Overseer of the Antechamber, Hor-Ir-Aa'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSize 18.5 cm high + custom base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvenance: Old Collection, Berlin, acquired 26 February 1963 from M. Gassierer (as recorded in Mr Bs photo album).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor another shabti for Hor-Ir-Aa from Saqqara, see G. Janes, Shabtis. A Private View, Paris, 2002, p. 192-193, no. 98.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art for Eternity","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49440758300986,"sku":"16261","price":15000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0775\/5120\/6714\/files\/16261blu.jpg?v=1725211850"},{"product_id":"egyptian-faience-inscribed-servant-figure-ushabti","title":"Egyptian Faience Inscribed Servant Figure Ushabti","description":"\u003cp\u003eThird Intermediate Period, 21st-22nd Dynasty, circa 1069-900 B.C.A pale green to yellow colored standing servant ushabti or shabti for Nes-Mut; with single line of hieroglyphic inscription down front. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSize 4-3\/8 inches H.; 5-3\/8 inches on block base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvenance: Bodo Bleß (1940-2022) collection, Berlin, formed from ca. 1960 onwards. number 19 on base behind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art for Eternity","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51048761590074,"sku":"16641","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0775\/5120\/6714\/files\/16641blue.jpg?v=1742914208"},{"product_id":"egyptian-faience-ushabti-in-hieratic-cursive-inscription","title":"Egyptian Faience Ushabti in Hieratic Inscription","description":"\u003cp\u003eLate Period Circa 700 to 500 BCE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA green glaze standing servant figure with arms crossed and holding agricultural implements and face with triparte wig and long beard. Front is inscribed in black ink in multiple rows in a hieratic (cursive) inscription instead of a hieroglyphic one. It begins “O you shabti ...” and the rest is  probably the usual spell or, more likely, an abridged version of the spell.\u003cbr\u003eSize 4-3\/8 inches Height. + custom mount. \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good repair to ankles, nose gone, some surface wear.  Provenance: From an old private collection in North Rhine-Westphalia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art for Eternity","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53061880152378,"sku":"17324","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0775\/5120\/6714\/files\/17324bl.jpg?v=1771613681"},{"product_id":"egyptian-turquoise-faience-reis-overseer-ushabti-for-userhatmes","title":"Egyptian Turquoise Faience Reis Overseer Ushabti for Userhatmes","description":"\u003cp\u003e21st Dynasty, Circa 1069-945 B.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a frontal column of text, shown carrying two hoes, wearing the seshed fillet and carrying seed-bags across  back, one with neb-shaped seed-bag and details in added black, inscribed for 'The Osiris, the wab-priest of Amun, Userhatmes, true of voice', \u003cbr\u003eSize  4-1\/2 inches (11.43 cm.) Height + custom mount. \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good intact, some surface wear.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvenance: From an old private collection in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art for Eternity","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53170103615802,"sku":"17213","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0775\/5120\/6714\/files\/17213bl.jpg?v=1773683834"},{"product_id":"egyptian-turquoise-blue-faience-ushabti-of-iwesenhesetmut-lady-of-the-house-and-chantress-of-amun-re","title":"Egyptian Turquoise Blue Faience Ushabti of Iwesenhesetmut; Lady of the House and Chantress of Amun-Re","description":"Third Intermediate Period, Twenty-first Dynasty, circa 1000 BC, belonging stylistically and epigraphically to the published group made for this Lady of the House and Chantress of Amun-Re. The compact mummiform figure wears a tripartite wig articulated with black stripes, with painted eyebrows and outlined eyes above a modeled nose and mouth; crossed hands hold agricultural implements, while a hatched basket with prominent attachment loops occupies the back. Multiple vertical columns of black-painted hieroglyphs extend around the body, their arrangement and surviving signs supporting the proposed identification with Iwesenhesetmut, although the personal name remains a provisional reading. The corresponding published inscriptions invoke Chapter 6 of the Book of the Dead, enabling the shabti to answer when its owner was summoned to agricultural labor in the afterlife, including cultivating fields, irrigating riverbanks, and transporting sand. \u003cbr\u003eHeight approximately 3.5 inches (8.9 cm), excluding the wooden display base, into which the feet are slightly recessed. \u003cbr\u003eThe turquoise glaze and extensive black decoration survive with surface abrasion, pitting, and small losses; a repaired fracture crosses the ankles, with conspicuous brown adhesive and localized losses around the join. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCf. the closely related worker shabtis in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1872.947, and University of Aberdeen, ABDUA:63385, illustrated by Janes, and the British Museum example EA33966, catalogued under the variant name Isthesenmut (published museum parallels; British Museum). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer burial, probably in western Thebes, had evidently been opened by approximately 1817–1818, when the Rev. Robert Fitzherbert Fuller appears to have acquired her mummy and coffin ensemble in Egypt; he presented them to the Devon and Exeter Institution in 1819, but neither an exact discovery date nor a securely identified tomb location is documented. Belzoni’s possible involvement has been suggested but remains unproven, and this history of her dispersed funerary equipment should not be represented as the documented provenance of the present figure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvenance:  Property from an English gentleman.","brand":"Art for Eternity","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54104139465018,"sku":"17837","price":4750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0775\/5120\/6714\/files\/100513.jpg?v=1790017557"},{"product_id":"egyptian-mummiform-terracotta-ushabti-figure","title":"Egyptian mummiform Terracotta Ushabti figure","description":"fashioned from coarseNile silt clay, dating to the Third Intermediate Period to Late Period (circa 1069–525 BCE). Standing 7 inches (17.8 cm) in height, the funerary statuette exhibits the classic Osiriform shape, molded with broad lappets of a tripartite wig flanking an abstracted, rounded face with softly articulated features. The arms are crossed over the chest at the mid-torso, terminating above a tapering, columnar mummified lower body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fabric is a dense, heavily mineralized Nile silt earthenware with visible organic tempering voids and dark mineral inclusions throughout the porous matrix. Faint remnants of an underlying light slip and traces of black pigment detailing remain visible around the head and wig, while the reverse is modeled smoothly with minimal tooling.","brand":"Art for Eternity","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67593712599354,"sku":"17971","price":895.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0775\/5120\/6714\/files\/100532.jpg?v=1790628984"},{"product_id":"egyptian-faience-ushabti-of-the-overseer-of-the-army-pakhas","title":"Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas","description":"Late Period, 26th–30th Dynasty, ca. 664–342 BC. \u003cbr\u003eThe mold-made pale green faience mummiform worker wearing the tripartite wig and the long plaited beard of Osiris. The crossed hands grip a pick and a hoe, the tools it would use to answer the call to farm the fields of the afterlife in its owner's place. The figure stands against a back pillar on a rectangular plinth. Incised hieroglyphs run down the front translate as: \"Illuminate the Osiris, the overseer of the army Pakhas, born of Ibhemes, true of voice.\" The title imy-r mšꜥ, \"overseer of the army,\" belonged to the officers who served as generals of the Saite and later kings. That makes Pakhas one of a fairly small group of Late Period military commanders known from their funerary figures. A close parallel is the shabti of the overseer of the army Padihorenpe, born of Neitemhat, published by Pavel Onderka among the officers' shabtis in Prague. Other figures from the same set are in the Museo Archeologico, Milan (E 0.9.40173–40176); \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther Pakhas reside in the Brooklyn Museum, accession no. 37.141E; Cairo Museum, no. 47465-47473; Shabti Collections, no. SC\/7; Schneider no. 5.3.1.  The tomb was discovered in the Giza Plateau in 1840.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSize:  7.5 in. (19.1 cm) high + custom base. Pale green glaze survives in the recesses and on the sides and back, over the buff faience body. There is scattered pinhole pitting from the original firing, general surface wear, and a fine hairline running down the right side of the front. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvenance Sotheby's, New York, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Western Asiatic Antiquities and Islamic Works of Art, December 2, 1988, sale 5788 (\"NAXOU\"), lot 327 (one of three). The display stand  still carries its Sotheby's lot label and sale number. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Art for Eternity","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67617022574906,"sku":"17931","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0775\/5120\/6714\/files\/100761.jpg?v=1790954903"}],"url":"https:\/\/howardnowes.com\/collections\/egyptian-ushabtis.oembed","provider":"Art for Eternity","version":"1.0","type":"link"}