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Provenance:
Bodo Bleß (1940-2022) collection, Berlin, formed from ca. 1960 onwards.
Takelot II served as High Priest of Thebes in the last years of the reign of Osorkon II before himself taking royal titles at Thebes, thereby becoming the 'first proper king of the parallel 23rd Dynasty', independent of the kings of the 22nd Dynasty (A. Dodson, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, London, 2004, p. 211 and 223). For two other examples of Takelot II with similar features see J.F. and L Aubert, Statuettes Égyptiennes, Chaouabtis, ouchebtis, Paris, 1974, pl. 49, figs 116 and 117. There is a shabti for the same king in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, acc. no. 97.63.77.