Shabti

E17923.4

From: Egypt | Nubia | Aniba

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

Object Number E17923.4
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Nubia | Aniba
Period Nineteenth Dynasty
Section Egyptian
Materials Faience
Inscription Language Egyptian Language
Description

Blue-green faience shabti with an anonymous inscription. Shabti wears a tripartite wig, with indications of modeled ears. Hands are modeled, and hold painted adzes. A column of text runs down the front of the shabti's legs, and reads "The Illuminated One, The Osiris, true of voice." There is a rectangular painted basket on the shabti's back with no slanted line internal decoration.

Height 11.3 cm
Width 3.25 cm
Depth 2.02 cm
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Karanog, Shablul; David Randall-MacIver, 1907

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