Object Details
- Collector
- Joseph Hirshhorn
- Donor Name
- Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
- WOODEN FIGURE WITH HIEROGLYPHICS (INLAID) ARMS CROSSED, HEAD DRESS PAINTED BLACK, NOSE BROKEN. PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG.
- Extremely well carved with a very detailed 2-zone wig, and the inscription inlaid in the wood with a lighter colored material. The figure originally had a beard which is now missing, and has seed packets on its back carved in raised relief. Inscribed for one "sin-wed-nu" a priest of offerings, agent of the temple of Amon, and High priest of Ptah. [Name in later notes given as Sen-ked] Dynasty XVIII - XIX.
- From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Shabti, 1292-1190 BC. Shabti wears wig and jewelry like living people. As a worker in the afterlife, it holds a hoe.
- Record Last Modified
- 30 Jul 2020
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Egyptian, New Kingdom Period
- Accession Date
- 28 Aug 1992
- Accession Number
- 370312
- USNM Number
- A553169-0
- Object Type
- Figurine
- Length - Object
- 14.5 cm
- Width - Object
- 7 cm
- Depth - Object
- 3 cm
- Place
- Not Given, Egypt (not certain), Africa (not certain)
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Archaeology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8503985
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/30beb03b4-e827-457c-bf05-707376dcce68
