OUSHEBTI IN THE NAME OF NEFERIBRÊ(EM)HEB Reign... Lot 46

OUSHEBTI IN THE NAME OF NEFERIBRÊ(EM)HEB Reign of Psammetic II (595-589) Egypt, Saite period, XXVIth dynasty Turquoise earthenware statuette, wearing a tripartite wig, standing on a quadrangular base, arms crossed, holding the two farming implements. Three columns of hieroglyphic inscriptions: "O these Ochebtis, if one counts the Osiris Nefer-ib-rê-(em)-heb, born of Charemetch, to accomplish all the work that is done there, in the domain of the god, then the embarrassment (t')en will be inflicted there, like a man to his task. "Here I am," you will say." Fracture restored. Height: 15.5 cm Provenance: My Boisgirard and de Heeckeren, Hotel Drouot, Paris, December 13-14, 1976: #227 (ill.) Private collection, France Related works: Louvre Museum (Amiens deposit): MP 88.3.131-133 An Egyptian faience ushabti for Neferibrê(em)heb, reign of Psamtik II (595-589), Saite Period, 26th Dynasty