Blue glazed faience shabti. He is shown in typical mummiform, with tripartite wig, the arms crossed right over left on the chest, each hand holding a hoe, basket on the back. A single vertical column in black names the owner, Amenhatpamecha (Amun is the head of the army).
 
Egyptian Third Intermediate Period, Second Cache of Deir el-Bahari, 21st Dynasty: 1069–943 BC.
 
Very Fine condition.
Height 11.9 cms (4.7 ins)
 
Provenance: Sold Sotheby’s: London 23/24th April 1997: Previously the property of James Sivewright Esquire. Supplied with the original sales catalogue. 
 
Literature:
Liliane Auben, Les Statuettes de la deuxiérne Cachette Deir el-Bahari (page 52, PIate I).
Glenn Janes, Shabtis A Private View, page 70, number 34.
Hermann Schlögl, Totenfigurenfiguren aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Schweiz (S. 162).
Schneider, Shabtis II 4-3.1.10 & 4-3.1.11 (S. 228) Dressy, Les cerceuils des prétres d'Amon, ASAE 8, 1907, 15.
 
Sir James Sivewright, K.C.M.G. (1848–1916), often styled in formal mid-career legal or financial records as "James Sivewright, Esquire", was a highly prominent Scottish-born telegraph engineer, South African politician, and industrialist. While he is overwhelmingly remembered for building Southern Africa's communications network and his close association with Cecil Rhodes, his connection to antiquities, particularly Egyptian ones, stems from the intersection of late-Victorian "Egyptomania," his personal estate, and his involvement in the famous "Cape-to-Cairo" colonial infrastructure campaigns.
 
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