Description:
Wooden 'stick' shabti. Crudely carved in the form of a man with rough representations of head, arms and feet. Facial features are roughly carved with eyes and eyebrows painted on in black. There is an inscription in hieratic on the front and sides of the body in black ink.
Relational references:
Schneider, H.D. 1977. Shabtis : an introduction to the history of ancient Egyptian funerary statuettes with a catalogue of the collection of shabtis in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden. Leiden: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. Stewart, H.M. 1995. Egyptian Shabtis. Princes Risborough: Shire.| Object details | |
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| Type of object: | Shabti |
| Type category: | Funerary object or tomb equipment |
| Material: | Unspecified wood, Ink |
| Width: | 34 mm |
| Height: | 158 mm |
| Depth: | 38 mm |
| Origin | |
| Style/Period: | New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty |
| Date range: | 1540 - 1292 BCE |
| Discovery site: | New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty |
| Environment: | |
| Creator | |
| Technique: | |
| Personal name: | - |
| Role: | - |
| Culture: | Egyptian |
| Record data | |
| Artworld id: | 00057 |
| Current accession number: | - |
| Former accession number: | 1 Gournah |
| Credit line: | - |
| Recorded by: | lW |
| Record date: | Tue, 6th Nov 2001 |
| Copyright: | Copyright© by the Oriental Museum, University of Durham, Durham, 2002. All Rights reserved |


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