About the Artwork
Shabti
between 1070 and 945 BCE
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Egyptian
Egyptian
Faience with gray-green glaze and black-red pigment
Overall: 5 7/8 × 1 1/8 × 7/8 inches (14.9 × 2.9 × 2.2 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Gift of The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900-1902
1990.328
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed: P3-sb3-h'-n-niw.t, son of Mn-hpr-r' [translated: Pi seb Khanu, son of Re men Khepera] (diacritical marks omitted; hieroglyphics for deceased's name, painted in black).
Provenance
from cemetery D, tomb 22 (Abydos, Egypt)
1900-1902, gifted by the Egypt Exploration Fund
1990-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Randall-Maciver & Mace. El Amrah and Abydos. pp. 64, 77, 79, 84-86, 94, 98 - tomb 22, pl. XXI - D22 stela, pl. XXXIX - shabti, pl. LVIII, no. 62.
Ranke, I, 117, 1. (transliteration of name).
Porter & Moss, V, 68.
Kitchen, The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt, p. 270.
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Egyptian, Shabti, between 1070 and 945 BCE, faience with gray-green glaze and black-red pigment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900-1902, 1990.328.
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