The shabti is mummiform, wearing a striated wig with a fillet around it. The arms are crossed right over left, both holding a hoe. The shabti carries a bag with loops on its flat back.The statue is executed in a glossy faience and finely modelled. The head is flat-topped.
(1) The illuminated one, the Osiris, the priest of Amun, Hor justified, (2) he says: o this shabti, if one reckons, (3) ... the Osiris, the priest of Amun, Hor, to do all work (4) in the necropolis [...] (5) indeed, are placed (6) there, "here I am, I shall do it", you shall say.
Bibliography
G. Daressy, Les Cercueils des Prêtres d'Amon, ASAE 8 (1907), 16 (nr. 37)
R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer (ed.), Egypte: eender en anders (tentoonstellingscatalogus), 1984, 128-129 (nr. 282)
W.M. van Haarlem (ed.), CAA Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, Fasc. 1, 1986, 66-68
H.D. Schneider, Shabtis, vol. I, 1977, 159
R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Egypte, geschenk van de Nijl, 1992, 56-57, 58/fig. 34
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