Shabti of Tjes-bastet-peret

M14027

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Blue glazed shabti of Tjesbastperet with painted detail in black. Mummiform in shape with hands in relief that meet above the waist. The face is round in shape and simply modelled, wearing a plain tripartite wig with a seshed headband tied at the back. The left hand holds a single hoe. The other hand holds a single rope for a basket that is carried on the flat back, although the basket has two carrying ropes, presumably the other being merged with the handle of the hoe. The basket is trapezoidal with horizontal line detail. On the front of the legs is a column of black painted hieroglyphs within a border that is now quite indistinct but appears to read: “An offering which the king gives to Ptah-{Sokar-Osiris]...”. Tjes–Bastet–peret was a daughter of Osorkon II and Iset–em–Khebit (C). She was married to her nephew, Takelot (B).A set of canopic jars are to be found in Vienna (Kunsthistorisches Museum ÄS 3561–3564 – formerly in the collection of the Austrian Consul in Egypt, Franz Champion, and given in 1854). The jars are made of yellowish calcite, but the stopper with the head of Imsety is made of sandstone. A fragment from an alabaster vessel, excavated at Tell Hisn (Heliopolis), is to be found in London (Petrie Museum UC 16045). Tjes–Bastet–peret’s name is found on two stelae dedicated by her son Pa–di–Iset who was a High Priest of Ptah. They are from the Serapeum (Apis XXIX and XXX), and are now to be found in Paris (Louvre IM 3697 & IM 3749). A parallel shabti for Tjes–Bastet–peret is to be found in London (British Museum EA8963).