Fa ience Ushabt is 184 EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE FAIENCE ROYAL USHABTI OF PINEDJEM I, HIGH PRIEST OF AMUN and king of Southern Egypt from ca. 1054-1032 BC. Details and hieroglyphic text in manganese-black. Early XXIst Dynasty, ca. 1070-1032 BC. H. 5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) From the royal cache at Deir el Bahari. Choice and rare, especially in this large size. Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired in Brussels, March 1998. Exhibited: Albany Institute of History & Art, September 2013 to June 2014, for “The Mystery of the Albany Mummies.” 185 EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE FAIENCE USHABTI OF PSAMTIK, God’s Father, born to Seba-Rekhyet, holding hoes and seed-sack, with nine lines of inscription. XXVI Dynasty, probably reign of Amasis, 570-526 BC. H. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm.) Choice. Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired from Galerie St. Peres, Paris, in October 1984. 186 EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE FAIENCE USHABTI OF ANKH-HOR, Governor of Upper Egypt under Psammetichus II and Apries, holding hoes; the front of the body and the entire back covered with a hieroglyphic inscription. Mid-XXVI Dynasty, ca. 600-575 BC. H. 3 5/8 in. (9 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired in Freiburg, Germany, March 1997. 187 EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE USHABTI OF THE SEM-PRIEST HOR-KHONSU, born of Maat-wer(et), holding hoes and a seed bag; incised with eight lines of hieroglyphic text. Late Dynastic, 664-332 BC. L. 6 1/8 in. (15.4 cm.) Ex Israeli private collection, 1970s.
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