A Pale Blue Green Faience Ushabti of General Ankhwahibresaneith, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.

born to Isetkheb, standing on a trapezoidal base and holding the pick, hoe, and seed-sack, and wearing a braided beard and striated tripartite wig falling to the top of the inscribed rectangular back pillar, his face with mouth indented at the corners and long outlined eyebrows in relief, eight lines of inscription in sunk relief in front.

Dr. John Norman Winnie, Jr., Saint Mary's, Georgia

repaired below knees and across neck and beard with overpainting along the joins, tip of nose restored, most of surface weathered and stained dark to light brown, cemented to base
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The tomb of Ankhwahibresaneith at Saqqara, which was discovered by James Edward Quibell in the early 20th Century, contained 384 ushabtis (see M. Châban, Annales du Service des Antiquités de L'Égypte, 1917, p. 179). For other example see J. F. Aubert and L. Aubert, Statuettes égyptiennes, Chaouabtis, Ouchebtis, Paris, 1974,  fig. 147, and H. D. Schneider, Shabtis, Leiden, 1977, 5.3.1.261, pl. 64.