SHABTI

SHABTI

WOOD

17TH DYNASTY


KMKG - MRAH

This figurine belongs to a type of shabti dating from the end of the 2nd Intermediate Period or the beginning of the New Kingdom. It constitutes a simple block of wood whose two extremities - the head and the feet - are cursorily depicted. On the rounded body, one notices a text written on eight lines in hieratic script. It is a version of Chapter 6 of the Book of the Dead.

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