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Shabti

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A shabti wearing a tripartite wig with vertical stripes and a collar with several strings and pendants. The arms are folded (right over left); there are bracelets on the wrists, and the hands hold agricultural tools; two bags for grain are depicted on the shoulders. The mummiform body carries an inscription arranged in eight horizontal lines on the front and a vertical column on the back. The eyes and one of the tools are painted in black, while the stripes of the wig and the inscription are painted in white.

Present location

MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [05/027] FLORENCE

Inventory number

2097

Dating

18TH DYNASTY

Archaeological Site

UNSPECIFIED

Category

SHABTI

Material

WOOD

Technique

INCISION; PAINTED

Height

28 cm

Translation

Illuminating the Osiris Pawer. He says: "O this shabti, if one counts the Osiris Pawer to do all the works to be done in the Beyond, to plow the fields, water the banks, carry sand from east to... when obstacles are implanted there against him, as a man at his duty, if his name is counted in every moment... 'Here I am' he will say".
The blessed in front of Amset, the Osiris Pawer, justified.

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