Shabti figure, of wood, elongated mummy shape, tripartite wig, large ears, prominent ankles. Single column of incised text down front, flanked at top by four horizontal bands continuing around back
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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