- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Faience mummiform shabti figure, with traces of blue glaze on reverse. Black painted eyes and hieroglyphic text on front central column. Stylised mummiform figure, basic incised detail to the head and headdress, no incised detail to the body. [AS 09/10/2012]
- Geographical reference
- Date
- Date collected
- 1864-1865
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1921
- Materials and processes
- Material Faience Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Glazed, Process Inscribed, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 15 mm, Width: max 22 mm, Length: max 82 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1921.93.402
- Research and responses
This object was examined by Alice Williams, a UCL MA student, who described it in more detail [see longer description]. [AS 09/10/2012]
Search terms: Figure, Religion, Death, Religious Object, Grave Good
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