AN EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE-BLUE FAIENCE USHABTI OF TJAI-NE-HEBU, ADMIRAL OF THE ROYAL FLEET, 26TH DYNASTY, REIGN OF AMASIS, 570-526 B.C.

AN EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE-BLUE FAIENCE USHABTI OF TJAI-NE-HEBU, ADMIRAL OF THE ROYAL FLEET, 26TH DYNASTY, REIGN OF AMASIS, 570-526 B.C.

born to Ta-nefer-ity, holding the hoe, pick, and seed-sack over his left shoulder, and wearing a braided beard with curled tip and tripartite wig, the ten lines of inscription beginning and ending at the back pillar.
Height 18 cm.

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Provenance:
Swedish private collection, early 20th Century (based on labels handwritten in Swedish and applied to the underside of the base)

Bukowskis, Stockholm, December 4th-6th, 2001, no. 1297 (part), illus.