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Lot 158 - Auction 66

EGYPTIAN USHABTI OF THE PRINCE KHAEMWESET XIX Dynasty, 1295 - 1185 BC
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2.700,00 GBP
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Description

EGYPTIAN USHABTI OF THE PRINCE KHAEMWESET
XIX Dynasty, 1295 - 1185 BC
height cm 16
A real valuable personalized burial offering, carefully molded in blue faience, in mummy shape and with magical formula painted on the front, usually get from the Book of the Dead. Destined to the prince Khaemwaset, known as builder of Serapeum, high priest and magician, he was the most prominent son of the powerful Ramesses II (1279 - 1213 BC).

PROVENANCE
English private collection; with Hixenbaugh Ancient Art (New York); formerly in the collection of Leopoldo Benguerel y Godo, Barcelona (acquired in London in the 1960s); accompanied by a copy of a thermoluminescence test certificate.
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