Fragment of a shabti
- Accession Number
- EC933
- Current Location
- In storage
- Object Type
- Tomb equipment, Shabti
- Material
- Stone/minerals (Limestone)
- Provenance
- Egypt
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Measurements
- Length: 85mm
Licensing details
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- Description
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The bottom half of a white limestone shabti which has remains of a black resin coating. The black varnish was associated with Osiris and rebirth and it is often used on funerary objects.
- Previous Owner
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Assumed long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
