Maker Egyptian
Title
  • Shabti
Date between 380 and 343 BCE
Medium faience with light blue glaze
Dimensions Overall (object only): 4 5/8 × 1 1/2 × 1 inches (11.7 × 3.8 × 2.5 cm)
Including base: 5 1/2 × 1 7/16 × 1 1/2 inches (14 × 3.7 × 3.8 cm)
Credit Line Gift of The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900-1902
Accession Number 1990.316
Department Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
Not On View
Inscriptions Inscribed: Dd-hr [diacritical marks omitted; hieroglyphics for deceased's name, painted in black]
from cemetary G, Tomb 50 (Abydos, Egypt);
1900-1902, gifted by the Egypt Exploration Fund;
1990-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Petrie, Abydos I, pp. 35, 37-39.

Petrie, Shabtis, pl. XXIII no.s 646-648, pl. XLV no.s 646-647.

Aubert, pp. 265-267, 282.

Ranke, I, 411, 12.