Egyptian Limestone Shabti of Renewt

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

This is a charming and robust stone Shabti for Renewt, a female from the New Kingdom who is portrayed beardless, which makes it exceptionally rare.  The rest of her features are typical, portrayed standing mummiform and wearing a tripartite headcloth, with facial features sensitively rendered. Her arms are folded across her chest, holding hoes, and a seed-sack over her right shoulder.  Her lower body is decorated in the round with three lines of sunk relief inscription that translate 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 …’.  A veritical line to the back names the owner, Renewt.