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Apr 23, 2007

Shawabty of Nectanebo II

360–342 BCE

Egypt, Late Period, Dynasty 30, reign of Nectanebo II

Pale turquoise faience

Overall: 19 x 6.1 x 3.8 cm (7 1/2 x 2 3/8 x 1 1/2 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1920.1989

Location

234 Textile Gallery

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Nectanebo II is the last Egyptian native to be pharaoh. This small statuette has idealized facial features and bears an inscription on the lower half that contains a wish for the afterlife.

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Inscriptions

Inscription Translation

The illuminated one, the Osiris, king Nakhthorheb-Meryhathor, vindicated, says, "O these shabtys, if the Osiris, king Nakhthorheb-Meryhathor, vindicated, is counted off to do any of the work in the necropolis, there being obstacles, placed therin, as a man about his duties, 'Here I am!' you shall say. If you are counted off at any time therein to cause the fields to grow, to irrigate the river banks, or to ferry the sand from the West to the East and vice-versa, 'Here I am!' you shall say."

Inscription Remark

Eight registers wraps around the lower body, beginning and ending in the rear.

Provenance

-1920

E.A. Abemayor, Cairo, Egypt, through Howard Carter, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1920-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 7, fig. 8

Myśliwiec, Karol. Royal portraiture of the dynasties XXI-XXX. Mainz am Rhein: Ph. von Zabern, 1988. p. 73, no. 4b

Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced: p. 452; Mentioned: p. 452-453

Exhibition history

The World of Ceramics : Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 30-September 5, 1982).

Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 10-July 5, 1998); Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI (August 25, 1998-January 3, 1999).

Egyptomania: Fashion's Conflicted Obsession. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 1, 2023-January 28, 2024).

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Egypt, Late Period, Dynasty 30, reign of Nectanebo II

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