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

AN EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE 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 bearded with curled tip and tripartite wig, the ten lines of inscription beginning and ending at the back pillar, a brief inscription on the foot.
Height 17.7 cm.

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Provenance:
Breitbart Collection, very probably acquired from Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, between 1966 and 1980 (Sotheby’s, New York, The Breitbart Collection of Antiquities and Ancient Glass, June 20th, 1990, no. 22, illus.)