A Bright Blue Faience Ushabti of Nestanebtisheru, 21st Dynasty, 980-944 B.C.

holding hoes and seed-sack, and wearing a striped tripartite wig, the eight columns of inscription and other details painted in black.

English private collection (Sotheby's, New York, December 10th, 1999, no. 441, illus. [part])
Dr. John Norman Winnie, Jr., Saint Mary's, Georgia

Glenn Janes, Shabtis. A Private View. Ancient Egyptian Funerary Statuettes in European Private Collections, Paris, 2002, p. 109, note 33

good, repaired across legs and at ankles with inpainting along the joins, small section on side of proper right foot appears to be restored, face rubbed
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Glenn Janes notes (op. cit. p. 107) that "the mummy (Cairo CG 61096) and coffins of Nes-ta-nebt-Isheru were found together with other items of her funerary equipment, including four alabaster canopic jars, in Deir el-Bahri Cache I (the royal Cache - DB 320)" in the late 19 th Century. Her funerary papyrus is in London (BM EA 10554). In this papyrus she has several titles including Supreme Chief of the Harem of of Amen-Re, and Prophetess of several deities including Horus, Min, and Isis at Akhmim, and Osiris, Horus and Isis at Abydos."