An Ancient Egyptian faience ushabti, mummy shaped, with backpillar, wearing a tripartite wig, a beard and a hoe and plough in crossed hands.

Seedbag over the left shoulder.

The hieroglyphic text extends over the backpillar and the base.

“Wnn jsw ḥr jrj kꜣt nb(t) jm ḥr(t)-nṯr n ḥm-nṯr Ḫnmw Ḥr-mꜣꜥ-ḫrw ms n Tjs-Ḥr-pr.t”.

Translation:

“May offerings be (for him), made from every ritual act performed in the necropolis, for the Khnum-priest Hor-Maa-Cheru, born of Tjes-Hor-Peret.”

Size: 13,2 cm

Period: 30th Dynasty, c. 359-341 B.C.

Material: faience

Condition: repaire at ankles

Provenance: Ex. collection Prof. Hermann A. Schlögl before 2000,

Ex. Swiss private collection 1980’s

Published: Corpus der Ägyptische totenfiguren der Öffentlichen sammlungen Krakaus,

2000 Pages 19 - 20.

Price: € 4.850,—