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WOODEN SHABTI IN THE NAME OF SETHI I
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WOODEN SHABTI IN THE NAME OF SETHI I
See original version (French)
Estimate €5,000 - €8,000
Voluntary lot
Description
WOODEN SHABTI IN THE NAME OF SETHI I
Egyptian art, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Seti I, 1294–1279 BC.
Royal funerary statuette made of bituminised wood, wearing the three-part wig, with arms crossed, engraved with six lines of hieroglyphic inscriptions quoting Chapter VI of the Book of the Dead.
Gaps at the feet and on the right hand.
Height: 19 cm
Provenance: Tomb of Seti I, discovered by Giovanni Battista Belzoni in the Valley of the Kings (KV 17), 1817
Private collection of a former pharmacist, received as a gift in the 1980s
Boisseau Pomez, Troyes Auction House, 28 May 2020: lot 145 (ill.)
Private collection, Paris
An Egyptian wooden shabti for Sety I,
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Sety I, 1294–1279 BC
See original version (French)
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