A Pale Blue Faience Ushabti of Nesbanebdjed, 30th Dynasty, 380-342 B.C.

"born to Shentyt, the 'imy-khenty Priest, the One who separates the Two Gods, the Priest of Osiris in Apet, the Scribe of the divine (...), the Overseer of wab-Priests of Sekhmet in Hat-mehyt (Mendes), the Priest of Banebdjed," standing on a trapezoidal base and holding the pick, hoe, and seed-sack, and wearing a braided beard with curled tip and tripartite wig falling to the top of the rectangular back pillar, his face with smiling mouth, broad nose, and outlined eyebrows in relief, a line and column of inscription in front.

Michael Koenig, Brussels, 1985
Christie's, New York, December 11th, 2003, no. 85, illus.
Dr. John Norman Winnie, Jr., Saint Mary's, Georgia

Very good, tips of implements lightly chipped, minor areas of incrustation, hairline crack in back between wig and seed-sack appears tobe a casting flaw, the number 24 is painted in blue ink on the back of the base
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On the tomb of Nesbanebdjed, which was discovered in 1902, see M.J.E. Quibell, "Note on a Tomb found at Tell er Robâ," Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, vol. 3, 1902, pp. 245-249; of the ushabtis found in the tomb 322 bore the T-shaped inscription. For other examples see J. F. Aubert and L. Aubert, Statuettes égyptiennes, Chaouabtis, Ouchebtis, Paris, 1974, pl. 66, Reflets du divin: Antiquités pharaoniques et classiques d'une collection privée, Geneva, 2001, no. 73c, and G. Janes, Shabtis: A Private View, Paris, 2002, no. 96.