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Shabti of Wehemmesut (?)

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Brightly glazed polychrome faience shabti, with a white background, red face, purple-brown details and hieroglyphic inscription, giving the shabti formula. Polychrome faience figures such as this shabti represent a technical achievement of the late 18th and 19th Dynasties.

Present location

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN

Inventory number

1882:3139

Dating

19TH DYNASTY

Archaeological Site

UNKNOWN

Category

SHABTI

Material

FAIENCE

Technique

PAINTED; PRESSED IN A FORM/MODEL; GLAZED

Height

16.5 cm

Width

4.5 cm

Depth

3 cm

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