Object Details
- Donor Name
- Dr. George W. Samson
- Site Name
- Thebes
- Johns Hopkins University Egyptologist Betsy Bryan interp. & transcribes Spell # 6 from Book of the Dead inscribed on this green/turquoise shabti of the 26th dynasty: "Reveal the Osisris Neferibre born of Nes-nebtawy, vindicated. He says: O this shabti, if the Osiris Neferibre born of Nes-nebtawy, vindicated, is reckoned to do any work there in the necropolis, as when one is gathered there as a man under his obligations. Behold me! You will reckoned yourself at every moment in order to do cultivation of the fields, to inundate the banks, to transport sand of the west to the east and back again. Behold me! will you then say." Neferibre (Good is the heart of Ra) was the prenomen of Pamtik II of the 26th dynasty. Nes-nabtawy means "She who belongs to the lord of the two lands [i..e, the king]".
- Record Last Modified
- 20 Aug 2017
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Egyptian, Late Period, Dynasty XXVI
- Accession Date
- 1885
- Accession Number
- 015645
- USNM Number
- A74583-0
- Object Type
- Figurine
- Place
- Qena, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Archaeology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8314208
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3d2b37d2c-280c-48dd-943b-197b9f865f7f
