Shabti of Hor-wedja, between 663 and 525 BCE

  • Egyptian

Faience with light green glaze

  • Overall: 8 1/16 × 2 1/8 × 1 1/2 inches (20.5 × 5.4 × 3.8 cm) Mount: 1/2 × 2 7/8 × 2 7/8 inches (1.3 × 7.3 × 7.3 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Jacobs

81.918

On View

  • Egyptian: Preparing for the Afterlife, Level 1, West

Department

African Art

excavated by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (Hawara, Fayum, Egypt). Mr. and Mrs. Earl Jacobs

1982-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Petrie, W. M. F. Kahun, Gurob and Hawara. London, 1890, p. 9. Aubert, J. F. and L. Aubert. Statuettes Egyptiennes: Chaouabtis, Ouchebtis. Paris, 1973, pp. 253, 297.

Egyptian, Shabti of Hor-wedja, between 663 and 525 BCE, faience with light green glaze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Jacobs, 81.918.