Royal Shawabti
Object Number: | 92-2-66 |
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Current Location: | Collections Storage |
Provenience: | Sudan Nubia Nuri |
Locus: | Pyramid I |
Period: | Third Intermediate Period Napatan Twenty-Fifth Dynasty |
Date Made: | 690-664 BCE |
Early Date: | -690 |
Late Date: | -664 |
Section: | Egyptian |
Materials: | Calcite |
Iconography: | King Taharqa |
Inscription Language: | Hieroglyphic |
Height: | 26.3 cm |
Width: | 9.8 cm |
Depth: | 5.1 cm |
Credit Line: | Exchange with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1992 |
Other Number: | 17-3-260 - Field No SF 20.218 - Boston Museum of Fine Arts Number |
Description
Calcite shabti of king Taharqa. The king wears a bag wig with a uraeus at his brow, a false beard and he holds two hoes. The front of the shabti is inscribed with 10 lines of the shabti spell.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum (18 Sep 2011) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Searching for Ancient Egypt: (1997 - 1997) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
[Book] O'Connor, David B. 1993. Ancient Nubia: Egypt's Rival in Africa.. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 142 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
[Book] Silverman, David P. 1997. Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum.. Cornell University Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 308-09 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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