“A Man in His Duty”: An Ushabti of Neferibresaneith and a Case Study in the Dispersal of Egyptian Antiquities

Autor: Cole, Sara E., Barr, Judith, Campbell, Roselyn
Zdroj: Getty Research Journal; 20240101, Issue: Preprints p191-206, 16p
Abstrakt: Abstract:The Antiquities Department of the J. Paul Getty Museum recently acquired a faience Egyptian ushabti belonging to the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty official Neferibresaneith. A study of the artifact sheds light on the individual object itself, which until now has been unpublished, and on the significance of the complete corpus of Neferibresaneith’s ushabtis for patterns of twentieth-century antiquities collecting. The ushabti exemplifies the high-quality funerary art produced during Egypt’s Twenty-Sixth, or Saite, Dynasty, and can be traced to an early twentieth-century excavation of a tomb in Saqqara. This essay provides a description of the ushabti and its archaeological context, documents the known whereabouts and sales of other ushabtis from the same tomb, and presents a transcription, transliteration, and translation of the hieroglyphic inscription on the figure’s body. The ushabti is a remarkable work of ancient art whose modern history provides fertile ground for provenance research and scientific study.
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