Blue-glazed shabti.

Collection type: Object
Description: Blue-glazed shabti.
Long description: Blue high-glazed faience shabti figure, mummiform with details in black paint. Black painted hieroglyphic text in four horizontal registers wrapping around torso and legs. Figure has incised arms and hands crossed over at chest, holding a hoe in each hand, seshed headband and basket or bag painted on the back.
Geographical reference: Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt
Person: Field collector Miss G. Verney; Field collector Gwendolen Verney; PRM source Miss G. Verney; PRM source Gwendolen Verney
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian Late Period Archaeological period: Ptolemaic
Date collected: By April 1925
Acquisition information: Donated: 04/1925
Materials and processes: Material Faience Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Glazed
Dimensions: Length x Width x Depth: max 122 x 38 x 23 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1925.16.19
Research and responses: This object was examined by Alice Williams, a UCL MA student, who identified it as 26th Dynasty – Ptolemaic Period in date and described it in more detail [see longer description]. [AS 09/10/2012]

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