Tentosorkon – Tnt-sArknA Overseer

Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun...

Shabti for Psusennes II (Pasebakheniut II) Overseer

Excavated in 1940 by Pierre Montet in Tanis, tomb III

Cairo Museum, overseer JE 86959, worker JE 86958

Photo: Tanis, L’or des pharaons pg. 136-137

Origin: Egypt

Period: New Kingdom, 21st Dynasty

Date: 959 – 945 BC

Material: Fayence

Dimension: 7,0 cm...

Unlike the typical amulet form, this small statuette was presented as a votive offering.

The light blue faience figure depicts the goddess Isis nursing her son, Horus.

She is seated on her throne resting her feet on an integral plinth, wearing a tripartite wig fronted by a uraeus, crowned by the throne hieroglyph.

Her son Horus is depicted nude while seated on her lap.

Provenance: Old German collection befor 1983...

Isetemkhebit (II) Worker – Ast-m-Ax-bit (II)

Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun.

Also known as Isetemkheb, Isetemkhebi, Istemkheb, Asetemachbit, Asetemakhbit.

The name means ‘Isis is in Ipu (Akhmim)

Two shabti series from Isetemkhebit have been attributed to A.126, but it is likely that they are two different ladies. Five different burials have been found named to Isetemkhebit...

Origin: Egypt

Period: Third Intermediat Period, 21th/22th Dynasty

Date: 1075 - 712 B.C

Material: Fayence

Dimension: 6,5 cm.

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Shabti for Tchahorpata

Tchahorpata wears a smooth wig, has his arms crossed on his chest and holds in his hands the tools, hoe and hand plow, as well as a string on which the bag with the seeds hangs on his back. The curved beard of the gods is typical of all figures since the XXVI century. Dynasue. The body has a framed veracal column and an inscribed inscription stating the name and title of the deceased...

Pakharu – pA-xArw Worker

Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun.

Also known as Ahaneferamon, Ahaneferamen, Pakharou, Pacharu, Pachel

The foreign name Pakaru means ‘The Palestinian’, he was also named Ahanéferamon, the brave fighter of Amen (Aubert). The name Pakharu is used on his shabtis and Book of the Dead...

Hor or Hori Overseer – Hr.i Overseer

Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun...

Tentosorkon – Tnt-sArknA Worker (2)

Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun...

Shabti for Tches-shet-Respen (1)

Origin: Egypt

Period: Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22

Date: 946/945 – 805/800 B.C

Material: Fayence

Dimension: 11,5 cm...

Tentosorkon – Tnt-sArknA Worker

Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun...

Nesypawtytawy – nsy-pAw-ty-tAwy Type 2 Worker

Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun.

Also known as Nespaoutytaouy, Nespautytawy, Nesypautitawy, Nesypautawy, Nespautitaui, Nesipautiutaui

His name means ‘The one who belongs to the God

Singer of West-Thebes, Wab-priest of Mut, Wab-priest of Amen, Scribe of the temple of Amen...

Shabti for Padjneith

Padjneith Wears a tripartite wig, arms crossed right over left on the chest with his hands holding the tools (pickaxe, hoe and the twisted rope of a hanging basket behind the left shoulder). the braided and curly divine beard is typical of the characters since the XXVIth dynasty. The body has no inscription, only the dorsal pillar bears one...

Pakharu – pA-xArw Worker Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun. Also known as Ahaneferamon, Ahaneferamen, Pakharou, Pacharu, Pachel The foreign name Pakaru means ‘The Palestinian’, he was also named Ahanéferamon, the brave fighter of Amen (Aubert). The name Pakharu is used on his shabtis and Book of the Dead...

Mehunedjem Type 1 – mHw-nDm

Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun.

Also known as Mehounedjem, Mehtaunedjem

The name means ‘The pleasant North-wind’

During the evacuation of the Bab el Gasus cache, Bouriant registered Mehunedjem on his shabtis list...

Shabti for Undjebauendjed

Wearing a round wig covering her ears, this funerary statuette is of proportions balanced despite its small size...

Menkheperra B – mn-xpr-ra Worker

Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun.

Also known as Menkheperre

The name means ‘The future of Re is stable

Third prophet of Amen-Re, the king of the gods, Greatest of Re-Atem’s seers in Thebes, Setem priest in the Horizon of Eternity, God’s father and Third prophet of Khonsu in Thebes Neferhotep, Chief of the cattle in the house of Re in the domain of Amen Son of Tjanefer A and Ga...

Tentipet – Tnt-ipt Worker

Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun.

Also known as Tenetopet, Tjentopet, Tjentipet, Tentopé, Tentope

The name means ‘The one who belongs to the harem

Chantress of Amen, Superior of the harem of Amen in the second phyle (or Great chief of Amen’s sacred musical troupe in the second phyle)

Although the relationship with the high priests of Amen is known because of two superiors of...