This shabti has a tripartite wig bearing a series of parallel vertical striations, a broad collar, and bracelets on the wrists; it carries two hoes and on its back a basket is represented. The object is made of faded blue faience, with some details, such as the text, painted in black. It bears the name of the scribeHoremheb in a text composed of one axial column and four lines, being a summary of chapter 6 of the Book of the Dead.
Present location
INSTITUT DE PAPYROLOGIE ET D'ÉGYPTOLOGIE, UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE III [02/049] LILLE
"May the Osiris, the letter-scribeHoremheb, be illuminated. He says: O this shabti, if the Osiris Horemheb is selected to carry out any work normally done in the necropolis, then you should say, 'I shall do it, I am here'."
Bibliography
Gratien Brigitte, La Nubie au temps des pharaons, catalogue d'exposition, [Boulogne-sur-mer], 1975, p.26, n°261.
Minault-Gout Anne, Nubie, les cultures antiques du Soudan, catalogue d'exposition, Lille, 1994, p.179-180, n°264.
Minault-Gout Anne, "Deux fonctionnaires de la XXIXe dynastie en poste au Soudan", BdE 81, 1979, p.34-36, pl. VIA et VIIA.
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