Shabti figure, light green glaze, tripartite wig, beard, hands on chest holding pick and hoe, basket thrown over left shoulder; feet on square base, dorsal pillar. Single column of hieroglyphs down front. Label on feet of the shabti figure and back pillar reads 'Egypt'.

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.