Funerary Figure of Nestanebisheru (Primary Title)
Ushabti (Object Name)
Funerary Figure (Alternate Title)
Unknown (Artist)
This funerary figure wears a striated nemes (head cloth) and bears a shortened rendering of the “shabti spell” from chapter six of the Book of the Dead to activate the shabti. Discovered in the 19th century in a royal cache at Deir el-Bahri, the figure belongs to the burial of Nestanebisheru, daughter of Pinudjem II-high priest of Amun at Thebes-and his first wife, Nesykhonsu.
Dynasty 21
Third Intermediate Period
Gift of Mrs. Marie P. Venner
“Life and Afterlife: Cycles of Nature and Belief in Ancient Egypt,” Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA); Penninsula Fine Arts Center (Newport News, VA): 12 June-9 August 1999; William King Museum of Art (Abingdon, VA): 27 August-10 October 1999; Piedmont Arts Association (Martinsville, VA): 15 October-28 November 1999; Emerson Gallery (McLean, VA): 3 December 1999-15 January 2000; Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (Farmville, VA): 22 January-5 March 2000.
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