Description:

Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, ca. 1070 to 712 BCE. A ceramic, painted ushabti (shabti). The body is painted over its entire surface a pinkish red, with details added in black - hair, face, the mummiform body, the agricultural implements, and a panel of hieroglyphs down the front of the legs. Comes with custom stand. Size: 1.95" W x 7.3" H (5 cm x 18.5 cm); height on stand: 7.45" (18.9 cm)

Ushabti were placed in tombs as grave goods, created to do manual labor for the deceased in the afterlife. As a result, they are frequently depicted with arms crossed, holding hoes and baskets. Towards the end of the Pharaonic period, they had become so necessary and elaborate that some tombs contained one worker for every day of the year and thirty-six overseers, each responsible for ten laborers. Workers like this one are from that period of enormous proliferation, and are some of our best surviving insights into ancient Egyptian funerary practices.

Provenance: private Florida, USA collection

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  • Condition: Ancient loss to half of feet. Nice remaining pigment. Some of the hieroglyphs are visible.

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