{"product_id":"egyptian-faience-ushabti-of-padidisu","title":"Egyptian Faience Ushabti of Padidisu","description":"Late Period, 30th Dynasty, ca. 380–343 BC\u003cbr\u003ePale turquoise-green faience as a mummiform figure standing on a low rectangular plinth. He wears a tripartite wig, his ears are rendered beneath the lappets, and a long plaited divine beard falls from his chin. His crossed hands hold a pick and a hoe, and the cord of a seed bag runs over his left shoulder. A  column of hieroglyphs runs down the front translates as  the text read sHd Wsir imy-r mSa PA...  \"The illuminated one, Overseer of the army Padidisu”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFigures of this kind were placed in the tomb by the hundreds to answer for the deceased. When he was called to plough, sow, irrigate, or carry sand in the fields of the afterlife, the shabti would take his place, which is why it is shown equipped as a field hand. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSize 7 in (17.8cm) H.  The original glaze has weathered to a soft matte green over a sandy buff body, with brighter turquoise surviving in the recesses of the wig, hands, and inscription. There is light scattered pitting and some small iron-brown patination. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComparable 30th Dynasty faience shabtis with a single column of text on the front are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: the Shabti of Djedhor, son of Renpetnefer (43.5), and a Late Period example of almost identical scale, 19.2 cm (10.130.1049). Shabtis of Late Period overseers of the army are published from the Institute of Classical Archaeology, Prague. \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 figure retains its Sotheby's lot label, \"327\/3.\"  ","brand":"Art for Eternity","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67937155907898,"sku":"17933","price":3850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0775\/5120\/6714\/files\/101398.jpg?v=1794083065","url":"https:\/\/howardnowes.com\/products\/egyptian-faience-ushabti-of-padidisu","provider":"Art for Eternity","version":"1.0","type":"link"}