Description: Pale green faience mummiform shabti figure with plain lappet wig and 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 naming Ankh-hap (Ranke 65,25).
Collectors Marks: paper label on feet with ink inscription in black cursive reading Egypt, paper label on base with large number 31, oval paper label on bottom back with C79 written in ink, proper left bottom number 2031 written in black ink.
Cultural Significance: Shabtis of the late period are mould made with detailed modelling including the hieroglyphs in the text. They often take the form of mummies standing with a back pillar, carrying agricultural tools and wearing the beard of Osiris. During this period the group of shabtis in one tomb might contain a range of sizes and types of shabti some large with long full inscriptions and some small with short inscriptions.
Comparanda: British Museum EA34099, EA34100, EA9177, EA9178, EA9199; Fitzwilliam Cambridge E.336.1954; Museo Egizio 2583; Bibliotheque Nationale 820; Muller Gallery Zurich.

Inscriptions / Translations:  The Illumined one, The Osiris Ankh-hap

Notes:  "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. Schneider classification XIA1/W34/H30/I8/B21/T7c
For Late Period shabti groupings see D. Thompson, A Shabti for Ahmose Born of Kheredankh, GM 265 (2021): 141-159.