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The Bodo Bruno Bernhard Bleß (1940-2022) Collection of Egyptian Antiquities (Lots 59-81)
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An Egyptian pale turquoise faience shabti for Astemkheb and an Egyptian pale turquoise faience shabti for the wab priest of Amun and scribe, Amen-hotep
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The Classics Online: Antiquities, Clocks, European Ceramics
22 November – 9 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
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An Egyptian pale turquoise faience shabti for Astemkheb and an Egyptian pale turquoise faience shabti for the wab priest of Amun and scribe, Amen-hotep

Third Intermediate Period, 21st-22nd Dynasty, circa 1069-900 B.C.
12cm and 10cm high respectively (2)

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Provenance:
Bodo Bleß (1940-2022) collection, Berlin, formed from ca. 1960 onwards.

The smaller shabti for Amen-hotep, who wears a fillet, dates to the 21st Dynasty and is from the Deir el Bahri cache II; see H.D. Schneider, Shabtis, Part II, Leiden, 1977, p. 123, no. 4.3.1.12 and 13. For an overseer shabti for Amen-hotep, see L. Aubert, Les Statuettes Funéraires de la Deuxième Cachette à Deir el-Bahari, Paris, 1998, p.54, no.5, pl.XII.

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