Egyptian Limestone Shabti of Renewt Egyptian Limestone Shabti of Renewt Egyptian Limestone Shabti of Renewt Egyptian Limestone Shabti of Renewt Egyptian Limestone Shabti of Renewt
Egyptian Limestone Shabti of Renewt
Egyptian Limestone Shabti of Renewt
Egyptian Limestone Shabti of Renewt
Egyptian Limestone Shabti of Renewt
Egyptian Limestone Shabti of Renewt

Egyptian Limestone Shabti of Renewt

SKU: HQ.0065

Origin: Egypt
Circa: New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, 1320 BC to 1200 BC
Dimensions: 6.6" Height x 2.5" Width (16.75 cm x 6.5 cm) excluding base
Medium: Limestone

Shown standing in mummiform and wearing a tripartite headcloth and and her facial features sensitively rendered. Her arms folded across her chest, holding hoes, a seed-sack over her right shoulder, her lower body decorated with three lines of sunk relief inscription and a veritical line to the back naming the owner, Renewt.

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Collection of Dr Powers, World Affairs Council, acquired between 1977-1982, Los Angeles, CA USA. Harmer Rooke Auction, 1991. Ex. Tallarico Collection of Egyptian Art.

Excellent condition, with minor damage to the nose which appears to have happened in antiquity.

The inscription translates to "The Shedji, the Osiris Renewt, she says 'O shabti, of one numbers, if one reckons to do all works that has to be done in the Necropolis, to cause to grow the fields, to cause to fill the canals, to cause to transport the sands...'"

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