Ushebti for Prince Khaemwaset. Ancient Egypt, New Empire, XIX Dynasty, Reign of Ramses II (1279-1213 BC). Fayenza. Provenance: Private collection of D

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  Ushebti for Prince Khaemwaset. Ancient Egypt, New Empire, XIX Dynasty, Reign of Ramses II (1279-1213 BC). Fayenza. Provenance: Private collection of Dr. L. Benguerel Godó, Barcelona, acquired in London in the 1960s. Attached an expert report by the Egyptologist and architect Don Fernando Estrada Laza. Measures: 17 cm (height). Ushebti in faience for Khaemwaset (ca. 1281-1225 BC), fourth son of Pharaoh Ramses II, and the second of his Great Royal Wife, Queen Isis-Nefert. He is currently the best known of this pharaoh's sons, as his contributions to the Egyptian people have been remembered for centuries. In fact, he has been described by historians as the first Egyptologist, due to his projects of identification and restoration of historic buildings, tombs and temples. He was also an outstanding diplomat, as well as high priest of the god Ptah and governor of Memphis, as well as crown prince at the end of his life. He died in the year 55 of his father's reign, and his tomb, located in the Serapeum of Saqqara, was found by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette in the mid-nineteenth century. In later periods of Egyptian history, Khaemwaset was remembered as a sage and even presented as a hero in a cycle of stories from the Greco-Roman period. The ushebtis are small statuettes that were deposited in the tombs as part of the grave goods of the deceased. The oldest preserved specimens come from the Middle Empire, although we already find references to them in texts from the end of the Ancient Empire. Throughout time they always maintained the same function in the religious sphere, but, while during the Middle Empire they were conceived as the representation of their owner before Osiris in the tasks of tillage in the kingdom of the shadows, replicas of the deceased, from the New Empire onwards they came to be seen as servants or slaves of the deceased, being made in large quantities.
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