Ushabti of Nesbanebdjed
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Nesbanebdjed’s burial was excavated at Tell er-Rub’a (ancient Mendes) in the Nile Delta by British Egyptologist James E. Quibell. The tomb was paved with limestone blocks. 360 faience ushabtis, and fragments of others, were recovered from the tomb. They comprised five types: 15 with a “very well modelled” horizontal inscription--of which this ushabti was one; 322 with a T-shaped inscription on the front of the body; 10 with 6 lines of inscription (presumably horizontal), “rudely made”; 5 with one line of inscription (presumably vertical); and 10 with no inscription, “rudely made.” All of those with inscriptions bore Nesbanebdjed’s name. Quibell suggested that the uninscribed ones, of which there were a large number of fragments, may have belonged to a burial discovered next to Nesbanebdjed’s, which is presumed to have been looted in antiquity.
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For other ushabtis belonging to Nesbanebdjed, see:
•With the horizontal inscription: Royal Athena Galleries, New York (Art of the Ancient World, vol. 20, 2009, 87, no. 197)
•With the T-shaped inscription: one in Leiden (Schneider, Shabtis, 1977, II 184-5 and III pl. 61, with list of examples in other museums and collections), one at the British Museum (EA54532), two at the Frank H. McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, two at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (1905.25.2 and 1905.25.16), and another sold by Sothebys New York December 2008, lot 4.
Bibliography
M. James Edward Quibell, “Note on a tomb found at Tell er Robâ,” Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte 3 (Cairo 1902), 245-249
Jacques François Aubert and Liliane Aubert, Statuettes égyptiennes (Paris 1974), 255, pl. 66, figs. 155-156
Hans D. Schneider, Shabtis (Leiden 1977), vol. 2, 184-185, and vol. 3, pl. 61
Jean-Luc Chappaz and Jacques Chamay, Reflets du divin: Antiquités pharaoniques et classiques d'une collection privée (Geneva 2001), no. 73c
Glenn Janes, Shabtis: A Private View (Paris 2002), no. 96.
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