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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Shabti Figure
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Shabti Figure

Artist Unknown
DateThird Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21, 1075-945 B.C.E.
MediumFaience
DimensionsOverall: 4 in. (10.2 cm)
ClassificationsEgyptian
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2217.7
Terms
  • Funerary objects
  • Blue
Collections
On View
On view
DescriptionFigurine of a standing man, his arms flexed on his chest, holding a painted black hoe in his left hand. A basket is hanging in his back. He's wearing a long wig of which locks are drawn in black, as his eyebrows and the outline of his eyes. A column of text runs down from his arms to his feet.

Label TextShabties of Pa-Sen Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21, 1075-945 B.C.E. Faience, glazed Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2217.3-4, 71.2217.7, respectively Shabties, or ushabties ("answerers"), appear in abundance in Egyptian tombs. These tiny, mummiform human figures were designed to function as servants of the deceased and to labor for them in the eternal fields of the afterlife. Many are inscribed with their owner's name-here, Imenemipet and Pa-Sen-and carry invocations meant to join the owner in death with Osiris, god of the underworld. By the New Kingdom, many well-stocked tombs had 365 shabty figures, one for each day of the year. Though they were sometimes fashioned of wood or stone, shabties made of faience, or glazed ceramic, are the most common.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Shabti Figure
Unknown
Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21, 1075-945 B.C.E.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Shabti Figure
Unknown
Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21, 1075-945 B.C.E.
Photograph by Shannon Ruff, Canon EOS Mark II D digital slr-2007.
Shabti Figure
Unknown
3rd Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21, ca. 1069-945 B.C.E.
Photograph by Shannon Ruff, Canon EOS Mark II D digital slr-2006.
Shabti Figure
Unknown
3rd Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21, ca. 1069-945 B.C.E.
Photograph by Shannon Ruff, Canon EOS Mark II D digital slr-2007.
Shabti Figure
Unknown
Third Intermediate Period and the reign of Nectanebo II, 1069-343 B.C
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Shabti Figure
Unknown
Dynasty 21, ca. 1069-945 B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Shabti
Unknown
Third Intermediate Period, ca. 1069-664 B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Shabti Figure
Unknown
New Kingdom or Third Intermediate Period, from late Dynasty 18 to Dynasty 21, ca
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Thoth, God Of Wisdom, Learning & Scribes
Unknown
Late Period, ca. 730-333 B.C.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.
Statue of the Deceased
Unknown
Dynasty 6, 2345-2181 B.C.E.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Shabti Figure
Unknown
Late Period, Dynasty 30, ca. 350 B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Shabti
Unknown
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