Condition:
In excellent condition; slightly water worn, may be accounted for by being kept in a slightly waterlogged tomb.
Description / Expertise
Late Period Blue Faience Ushabti
30th Dynasty (380-342 BC)
Mummiform type wearing tripartite wig, hands carved in low relief clutching hoes, rooted to integral dorsal plinth.
Belonging to a group of 28 similar various sized figures all named for the same man: "Sa-mry-f [lit: The son whom he loves], the prophet/priest of the god Khonsu, Hemet-ba-m-ankh.
Khonsu was a ram headed god who was the major creator god who fashioned man and his soul on his potters wheel. T-shaped inscription indicates deceased was associated with the God's cult at Heracleopolis (Greek for the ancient city of Neni-nesu).
Exceptionally fine and interesting example on account of its quality, and citation as the prophet of Khonsu, for there are only three examples of people known with this title. Additionally it is unusual to find such a large grouping named to the same person.
Ushabtis were provided in burials in order to take the place of the deceased in the next world and work at the corvee, clearing the irrigation canels, hence it is common to find ushabti carrying hoes.
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