**Originally Listed At $600**

Egypt, Third Intermediate, 21st to 22nd Dynasty, ca. 1069 to 715 BCE. A turquoise blue faience ushabti, standing mummiform with one inscribed vertical column in dark purplish black ink for Harsiese - an ancient Egyptian theophoric name meaning "Horus, son of Isis." In the middle of the ninth century BCE, during the Egyptian 22nd Dynasty, an individual named Harsiese held regal titles (pharaoh and high priest of Amun) in southern Egypt, while Osorkon II continued to reign in the north. Custom stand. Size: 4.375" H (11.1 cm); 4.625" H (11.7 cm) on included custom stand.

The Brooklyn Museum includes a wonderful block statue of Harsiese, a Priest of Amun and Min in their collection (accession number 51.15).

cf: L. Aubert, Statuettes funeraires, Paris, 1998, for the type.

Provenance: London art market in the late 1970s to early 1980s, acquired at Christie's London Sale 2007

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Expected surface wear commensurate with age, but much of the inscription and details remain.