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Auction archive: Lot number 28

AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SHABTI FOR TAY-SEN-NOFRET

Antiquities
11 Dec 2014
Estimate
US$20,000 - US$30,000
Price realised:
US$35,000
Auction archive: Lot number 28

AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SHABTI FOR TAY-SEN-NOFRET

Antiquities
11 Dec 2014
Estimate
US$20,000 - US$30,000
Price realised:
US$35,000
Beschreibung:

AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SHABTI FOR TAY-SEN-NOFRET
NEW KINGDOM, LATE 18TH-19TH DYNASTY, 1391-1196 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SHABTI FOR TAY-SEN-NOFRET NEW KINGDOM, LATE 18TH-19TH DYNASTY, 1391-1196 B.C. Depicted mummiform with the arms crossing her chest, the fisted hands holding agricultural implements and a horizontal rod supporting two baskets, wearing a striated tripartite wig, her round face well detailed, with seven rows of hieroglyphs on the body, reading: "Instructions of the Osiris, Justified, Tay-sen-nofret, He [sic] says;" and continuing with a form of the standard shabti text from Chapter 6 of The Book of the Dead ; preserving traces of pigment within the wig striations and inscription 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) high

Auction archive: Lot number 28
Auction:
Datum:
11 Dec 2014
Auction house:
Christie's
11 December 2014, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SHABTI FOR TAY-SEN-NOFRET
NEW KINGDOM, LATE 18TH-19TH DYNASTY, 1391-1196 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SHABTI FOR TAY-SEN-NOFRET NEW KINGDOM, LATE 18TH-19TH DYNASTY, 1391-1196 B.C. Depicted mummiform with the arms crossing her chest, the fisted hands holding agricultural implements and a horizontal rod supporting two baskets, wearing a striated tripartite wig, her round face well detailed, with seven rows of hieroglyphs on the body, reading: "Instructions of the Osiris, Justified, Tay-sen-nofret, He [sic] says;" and continuing with a form of the standard shabti text from Chapter 6 of The Book of the Dead ; preserving traces of pigment within the wig striations and inscription 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) high

Auction archive: Lot number 28
Auction:
Datum:
11 Dec 2014
Auction house:
Christie's
11 December 2014, New York, Rockefeller Center
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