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Egypt, 3rd Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, 1080-945 B.C. Deep blue faience shabti with crossed arms that are extraordinary long and shaped like loops. Details like the strands of the wig, the hoes in the hands and the basket on the back of the shabti are painted with black color. Especially the design of the arms will play an important role for the identification of the shabti.
The shabti wears a single column with a hieroglyphic inscription on its body. The following signs are visible: an eye, a throne (these two signs mean Wsir “Osiris”), a loop as well as a sign which looks like a basket with handles. It is observable that further signs are written below. The visible signs as well as a comparison with known shabtis of the Third Intermediate Period allow only one reading of the inscription: Wsir tA-Sd-xnsw, “Osiris, Ta-shed-khonsu.” The name of the owner of the shabti Ta-shed-khonsu means “she which has been rescued by Khonsu” (cf. Ranke 1935, Bd. I, 370 no. 14). The sign which looks like a basket is a waterskin. Below, a thin line is visible indicating the sign of a hand. Both signs together are to be read Sd which means “to rescue”. If one examines the area below these signs one may observe a placenta and a rush. Both signs are part of the god’s name Khonsu. Khnosu was worshipped as son of Amun and Mut at Thebes. Therefore, personal names including Khonsu were popular there.
In the 2nd Cachette of Deir el-Bahari, several shabtis belonging to a Ta-shed-khonsu were discovered which are, nowadays, spread over museums in Paris, Berlin, Cairo, Copenhagen, Florence, Istanbul, Madrid, Moscow etc. (Schneider 1977, Bd. I, S. 135 Taf. 52 (4.3.1.76); Aubert 1998, S. 98-99 Nr. 45). But the shabti described here does not originate from the 2nd Cachette of Deir el-Bahari but from Deir el-Medine!
Hermann A. Schlögl and Andreas Brodbeck mention in their catalogue two shabti types of a Ta-shed-khonsu which are designed very differently (Schlögl/Brodbeck 1990, S. 190-191 Nr. 116; S. 217 Nr. 141). The shabtis of the Cachette are longer while their arms are short. The wigs of the shabtis are totally colored in black or their wear a head cloth. On the other hand, the shabti from Deir el-Medine seems to be shorter. The arms are long and shaped like loops. The wig is attached with strands of hair. While the shabtis of the Cachette are made of light blue faience, Schlögl and Brodbeck emphasize the deep blue fayence of the shabti from Deir el-Medine. The similarity of the shabti described here and the the one from Deir el-Medine is obvious.
Deir el-Medine was the settlement of the workmen which built the tombs of the pharaohs of the New Kingdom in the Valley of the Kings. It was also occupied after the New Kingdom. In the Graeco-Roman period, a temple for Hathor was erected there. Bruyère has found many shabtis of different persons in the necropolis of Deir el-Medine (Aubert/Aubert 1974, S. 175-176). The shabtis of Tashedkhonsu were discovered in the north of tomb 290 (Schlögl/Brodbeck 1990, 217).
Dominique Valbelle has written that, all in all, 45 complete shabtis and 17 fragments were counted (Valbelle 1972, S. 68 Taf. XXVI Nr. 158).
A complete shabti and three fragments are in the Museo Egizio in Turino today (Inv.-nr. 7451-7453). Excavation reports mentioning the shabtis of Ta-shed-khonsu are the following: B. Bruyère, Rapport sur les fouilles de Deir el Médineh, FIFAO I, 1 (1922-23), 66, 70, 75 ; FIFAO III, 3 (1924-25), 60 ; FIFAO IV, 3 (1926), 15, 17, 35 ; FIFAO VII, 2 (1929), 88, 100.
Literature cited in the text above: Jacques-F. Aubert, Liliane Aubert: Statuettes égyptiennes. Chaouabtis, Ouchebtis, Paris 1974. Liliane Aubert: Les statuettes funéraires de la Deuxième Cachette à Deir el-Bahari, Paris 1998. Hermann Ranke: Die ägyptischen Personennamen, Glückstadt 1935. Hermann A. Schlögl, Andreas Brodbeck: Ägyptische Totenfiguren aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Schweiz (Oriens Biblicus et Orientalis Series Archaeologica 7), Freiburg (Schweiz) – Göttingen 1990. Hans Schneider: Shabtis. An Introduction to the History of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Statuettes, Leiden 1977. Dominique Valbelle: Ouchebtis de Deir el-Médineh (Documents de Fouilles XV), Cairo 1972.
Size: c. 10.6 cm
Provenance: Old american collection (Collection N.A. New York)
Repaired break at feet, else excellent. Beeautiful colour!
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