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An Egyptian polychrome painted limestone shabti for Nebet-neht image 1
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Lot 271*

An Egyptian polychrome painted limestone shabti for Nebet-neht

6 July 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian polychrome painted limestone shabti for Nebet-neht
New Kingdom, late 18th-early 19th Dynasty, circa 1300 B.C.
15cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
with Charles Ede Ltd., London (Small Sculpture from Ancient Egypt, July 1976, no. 2).
Bodo Bleß (1940-2022) collection, Berlin, formed from ca. 1960 onwards.

The shabti for the Lady of the House, Nebet-neht (Mistress of the Sycamore) carries a broad and a narrow bladed pick suggesting a date of late 18th-early 19th Dynasties. On the reverse there may be a possible attempt at usurpation where beneath the wig there are roughly painted hieroglyphs giving a male name, Amun-Mes.

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