HIXENBAVGH
ANCIENT ART
An ancient Egyptian green faience ushabti of Tjent-diu-adment. The mummiform figure holds two hoes and seed bag; a vertical hieroglyphic inscription down the front.
XXIst-XXIInd Dynasty,
Ca. 945-715 BC.
Height: 4 3/8 in. (11 cm).
Intact.
The ushabti (often translated as answerer) was placed in the tomb of the deceased among the myriad of other funerary equipment. The purpose of these figures, usually numbering 365 per tomb, was to magically answer when, in the afterlife, the deceased was called upon to perform his or her agricultural duties for Pharaoh (in the form of Osiris). The figures were made in the workshops of temple priests who carefully prepared the funerary equipment and the body to ensure the deceased proper passage to and life in the afterworld.
Acquired in London in the late 1970's.
GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC
Egyptian Green Faience
Ushabti of Tjent-diu-adment
Inv.# 2683
$850
