Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
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An Egyptian Pale Blue-green Ushabti of Horudja, 30th Dynasty, 380-342 B.C.
Lot Closed
July 6, 12:28 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Another Property
An Egyptian Pale Blue-green Ushabti of Horudja
30th Dynasty, 380-342 B.C.
priest of the goddess Neith, holding the hoe, pick, and seed-sack over his left shoulder, and wearing a braided beard curled at the tip and striated tripartite wig, his finely modeled face with lips indented at the corners, the nine lines of inscription beginning and ending at the back pillar.
Height 21.6 cm.
private collection, United Kingdom
Sotheby's, London, July 10th, 1992, no. 379
Charles Ede, Ltd., acquired at the above sale
The tomb of Horudja and his family was discovered in 1888 by Sir William Flinders Petrie, who spent several months working in the tomb. For a lively account by Petrie of the difficult conditions under which he worked, and a mention of the public and private collections of many of the 399 ushabtis of Horudja found there, see Glenn James, Shabtis, a Private View, Paris, 2002, pp. 194-197.