Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 218*

An Egyptian bright blue glazed composition shabti for Nest-t(a)-Neb-Tawy

7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,625 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Antiquities specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist
An Egyptian bright blue glazed composition shabti for Nest-t(a)-Neb-Tawy
Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, circa 1069-945 B.C.
Wearing a striped tripartite wig, carrying two hoes, a mesh bag across the back, one column of text down the front, for the deceased, Nest-t(a)-neb-tawy, 10cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
American private collection, Oregon, acquired between the 1940s and 1960s, thence by descent.
Originally from Deir el Bahri cache II.

Literature:
Cf. G. Janes, Shabtis, A Private View, Paris, 2002, p.110, no. 55.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A Mesopotamian clay cuneiform foundation cone with dedication inscription of King Lipit-Ishtar of Isin

A small Mesopotamian clay cuneiform foundation cone inscribed for King Sin-Kashid of Uruk

A Neo-Assyrian or Neo-Hittite bronze helmet with pelta-shaped cheek-pieces

An Attic pottery tankard with geometric decoration

A Greek pottery alabastron in the form of a greaved leg

A Greek terracotta female figure with a bird perched on her shoulder