An Egyptian polychrome painted wood shabti and an Egyptian wood funerary statuette
New Kingdom, Ramesside, 19th-20th Dynasty, circa 1292-1069 B.C.
The shabti depicted mummiform, wearing wig and broad collar, holding hoes and a water pot over her right shoulder, a seed bag suspended behind beneath the wig, a column of hieroglyphic text at the front naming Ta-Bes, the Regulator of the Household, details in ochre, red, black, green and blue; the statuette of a female worshipper depicted standing, wearing a duplex wig with long lappets and a long flaring apron, her hands held flat at the front in the gesture of subservience to a deity when praying, a column of large hieroglyphs painted in yellow down the apron, now almost illegible, but ending with the remains of a large standing figure, 20.6cm and 23.7 high respectively (2)注脚Provenance:
Shabti: Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired in the 1970s.
Statuette: Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired prior to 1967.