shabti box

Wooden shabti box

Category:

funerary equipment

Name:

shabti box

Date:

332 B.C. — 30 B.C.

Period(s):

Ptolemaic period; New Kingdom

Description:

shabti box, with painted decoration of protective deities, surmounted by ba bird. The shabti box is in the form of a shrine - images of a door and the four sons of Horus (who appear in funerary contexts) are painted onto the outsides.

Thebes

Technique: painted

Material: wood

Dimension(s):

depth, 24.7, cm

height, 40.8, cm

width, 22.7, cm

Acquisition:

bought; 1887; Budge, Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis

Documentation:

Budge, E.A. Wallis. 1893. Catalogue of the Egyptian collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

no. 11

Accession:

Object Number: E.10.1887

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