Description (Inscription)
Unknown transcriber, possibly Aidan Dodson: 'Nfr-ib-R' s3-Nt ms n Sp-n-B3stt m3' hrw'
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Context (Field collection)
Excavated by Cecil Mallaby Firth in 1929 from the tomb of Neferibresaneith (Tomb A).
Event Date 1929
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Found together / assemblage)
According to Cole, Barr and Campbell: '... during excavations south of the pyramid of the Fifth Dynasty pharaoh Userkaf at Saqqara... Firth discovered a complex containing two pairs of Twenty-Sixth Dynasty (664–526 bce) vaulted shaft tombs that intruded upon the remains of a temple associated with the pyramid. The northern vault of the largest of these tombs, known as Tomb A, belonged to a man named Neferibresaneith,the son of a woman named Shepenbastet. The tomb had been looted in antiquity and the mummy stolen.... sitting on the broken lid of the outer stone sarcophagus, lying beneath a mass of carbonized wood that was likely once a box (the tomb appears to have been subjected to fire when it was looted), excavators discovered numerous faience ushabtis... Additional ushabtis were also recovered from a shaft filled with sand at the western end of the tomb - a total of 336 were recorded in Firth's initial publication of the excavations.' (p. 191)

Event Date 1929
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Firth, Cecil M. (1929). "Excavations of the Department of Antiquities at Saqqara (October 1928 to March 1929)." Annales du Service des Antiquités de I'Egypte, 29. pp. 69-70
Event Date 1929
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Drioton, E. and J.P. Lauer. (1951). "Les tombes jumelées de Neferibrê-Sa-Neith et Ouahibrê-Men." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, 51. pp. 471-478
Event Date 1951
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Aubert, Jacques F, and Liliane Aubert. (1974). Statuettes Égyptiennes: Chaouabtis, Ouchebtis. Paris: Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient. pp. 229-231
Event Date 1974
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Shabti of Neferibre Sineit son of Shepenbast; Shabti Spell + Nfr-ib-R' s3-Nt ms n Sp-n-B3stt m3' hrw
Event Date 24/5/1991
Author: maa

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Context (Other)
The Getty Museum acquired a Neferibresaneith ushabti in 2016 (accession number 2016.2). See Cole, Sara et al. (2018)
Event Date 2016
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Analysis)
According to Glenn Janes (2018), this shabti has numerous parallels in collections round the world. See Cole, et. al. for a list of known examples of Neferibresaneith in museums around the world, accurate up until 2018.
Event Date 2018
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Context (References)
Cole, Sara E., Barr, Judith and Campbell, Roselyn. (2018). "A Man in His Duty": An Ushabti of Neferibresaneith and a Case Study in the Dispersal of Egyptian Antiquities. Getty Research Journal, no. 10. pp. 191-206
Event Date 2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Amendments / updates)
This shabti originally had no specific provenance beyond 'Egypt'. Based on parallels in other museums, Glenn Janes identified it as from Saqqara, which has been added to the Place field.
Event Date 3/2018
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Context (Amendments / updates)
This shabti was originally catalogued as 'Late Egyptian; XXVI'. Glenn Janes examined this shabti in March 2018. He dates it to the Late Period, 26th Dynasty and the Period field has been updated accordingly.

Event Date 3/2018
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Context (Analysis)
Glenn Janes, author of The Shabti Collections, examined this shabti in March 2018 as part of a survey of MAA's entire shabti collection, which continued in May 2018. Janes generated a spreadsheet detailing his analysis of the collection, see Doc.417.
Event Date 3/2018
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Description (Physical description)
Glenn Janes (2018): 'Green glazed faience ushabti for NeferibResaNeith, born to ShepenBastet.'
Event Date 3/2018
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Description (Physical description)
Shabti of NeferibResaNeith. Green faience with inscription.
Event Date 30/1/2019
Author: Lucie Carreau

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Context (Amendments / updates)
There was previously no Source information. Based on the information in Cole, et. al's article, Cecil Mallaby Firth has been added as the excavator. The donor is still uncertain.
Event Date 26/8/2020
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)