Shabti, between 1070 and 945 BCE

  • 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)

Gift of The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900-1902

1990.328

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).

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)

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.

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.