Egyptian Shabti for High Priest Padipepet from Saqqara Late Period, 26th Dynasty, 664-595 B.C. A faience shabti of typical form, carrying adze and hoe in its crossed hands, seed bag over the left shoulder, wearing a tripartite wig and false beard; the dorsal pillar inscribed with two columns of deep, well-executed hieroglyphs reading: 'Oh this ushabti, if the Osiris Padipepet, born to Basteiridis, is asked, you shall say: Here (I am), true of voice” (the so-called short version of spell 6 of the Book of the Dead). Cf. Aubert, J-F. & Aubert, L., Statuettes Égyptiennes. Chaouabtis, Ouchebtis, Paris, 1974, p. 217; Janes, G., Shabtis. A Private View, Ancient Egyptian Funerary Statuettes in European Private Collections, Paris, 2002, pp.167-168, no. 87 (includes the transliteration); Schneider, H.D., Shabtis - An Introduction to the History of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Statuettes. With a Catalogue of the Collection of Shabtis in the National Museum of Leiden, 3 volumes, Leiden, 1977, Volume II, p.175, no. 5.3.1.119 and pl.130; Volume III, pl.69; Hermann Schlögl & Andreas Brodbeck, Ägyptische Totenfiguren aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Schweiz, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Series Archeologica, 7, Göttingen, 1990, pp.241-242, no. 170; Newberry, P.E., Funerary Statuettes and Model Sarcophagi, Cairo, 1930-1957, pp.137, 411, 431, pl. XLII. 284 grams total, 14 cm (16.2 cm including stand) (5 1/2 (6 3/8 in.)). Acquired in the 1950s-1960s. With Bonhams 26 October 2007, lot 437. Ex Alexander Ancient Art since 2008. Accompanied by copies of the relevant Bonhams catalogue pages. Aubert suggests that Pa-di-pepet lived during the reign of Psamtek I or Necho in the early 26th Dynasty. His tomb was discovered in 1893 in Saqqara, west of the pyramid of Teti and east of that of Weserkaf. Soon after, his shabtis were officially sold to tourists at the Bulaq Museum (the predecessor of the current Egyptian Museum in Cairo). As a result, shabtis for Padipepet can be found in museums as well as in private collections all over the world. His alabaster canopic jars are in Cairo Museum.