An Egyptian Pale Blue-Green Ushabti of Neferibresaneith, 26th Dynasty, Reign of Amasis, 570-526 B.C.

son of Schepen-Bastet, holding the pick, hoe, and seed-sack, and wearing a braided beard and striated tripartite wig, nine lines of inscription in sunk relief in front, his carefully modeled face with long eyebrows and cosmetic lines in relief.

Alexander Comstock Kirk (1888-1979), U.S. Minister to Egypt, 1941-1944, and Ambassador to Italy, 1944-1946

Excellent, intact, note staining, minor pitting and small casting flaw on the back of the wig.
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The Tomb of Neferibresaneith was found at Sakkara, south of the funerary complex of Userkaf, in 1929, and was fully excavated in the late 1940s. In all, 336 ushabtis were found, most of them resting on the lid of the stone sarcophagus under the carbonized wood box; a large number of them were dispersed by the Egyptian Service des Antiquités (see J.-F. and L. Aubert, Statuette égyptiennes. Chaouabtis, ouchebtis, Paris 1974, p. 230). For related examples see M. Page-Gasser and André B. Wiese, Égypte, moments d'éternité, Mainz, 1997, no. 160, H.A. Schlögle and H. Brodbeck, Ägyptische Totenfiguren, Göttingen, 1990, no. 171, and Sotheby's, New York, June 13th, 2002, no. 29, December 6th, 2006, no. 76, and December 5th, 2007, no. 29.