Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas
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Egyptian Faience Ushabti of the Overseer of the Army Pakhas

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Late Period, 26th–30th Dynasty, ca. 664–342 BC.
The 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);

Other 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.

Size: 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.

Provenance 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.


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