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ID number:  ECM 358
Named collection:  The Eton Myers Collection
Title / Object name:  Shabti
Object type:  Shabti
Culture:  Egyptian
Collector:  Copeland, Richard
Materials:  Faience
Measurements:  overall: 12.0 cm x 3.37 cm x 2.21 cm (H x W x D)
Provenance:  Unknown
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Shabti figure, pale green glaze, tripartite wig, beard, hands on chest holding pick and how, basket thrown over left shoulder; feet on square base, dorsal pillar. Single column of hieroglyphs down front

Inscriptions / Translations:  Inscribed

Bibliography:  "H. D. Schneider, ‘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’, 3 vols., Leiden 1977.

For background on shabtis, see, for instance, J. H. Taylor, ‘Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt’, London 2001, 112-135."

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