EGYPTIAN USHABTI FOR GENERAL PAKHAAS

Description: A turquoise faience ushabti figurine. He is wearing a tripartite wig. Only the hands, crossed over the chest, protrude from the complete mummiform shroud in which the figure is wrapped. These are holding two hoes and a seed bag, indicating the agricultural work which he must carry out in the Other World. Nine horizontal registers of hieroglyphs cover the body and include the name of the owner of the ushabti, Pakhaas, son of Tachedidi. His tomb was discovered in 1840 in the area around Giza. It includes French Passport | Egypt. 30th Dynasty 380 - 343 BC

Condition: In a good state of preservation. Intact with only a small chip from the back right corner of the base. Notes: The piece includes authenticity certificate. For reasons of data protection, when the provenance of the pieces is private collections, only the initials of the particular collectors are shown, the complete information of these collections will be delivered to the buyer in the authenticity certificate. |The piece includes Spanish Export License ( Passport for European Union) - If the piece is destined outside the European Union a substitution of the export permit should be requested and an export fee must be paid ( see terms and conditions ). This process could take between 1 and 2 months.

Provenance: Private collection of the R. family, acquired by inheritance. Previously in the earlier collection of Mr. C.R., an agronomist who had specialized in irrigation in Egypt, between 1945 and 1946. Dimensions: 21,00 cm. Literature: Optimus Princeps. J. Bagot Arqueología. Barcelona. 2017. Fig 10.