Overseer shabti
- Accession Number
- AB111
- Current Location
- House of Life (first floor), Faience and glass case
- Object Type
- Tomb equipment, Shabti
- Period
- Third Intermediate Period
- Dynasty
- Twenty-first Dynasty
- Material
- Faience
- Provenance
- Egypt, Thebes/Luxor
- Measurements
- Height: 126mm | Width: 40mm | Depth: 29mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
Licensing details
- Description
-
An overseer shabti of light blue faience, which is inscribed for Padiamun. It wears a tripartite wig, which has been painted black, and a projecting kilt. His right arm is crossed over his chest with a whip, painted black, in his hand. Facial features are also added in black. The figure has been broken and repaired just below the kilt. Typologically, the shabti dates to the Twenty-first Dynasty and probably comes from the Theban region. It was a gift from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
- Bibliography
-
Poole, Federico 1998. Slave or double? A reconsideration of the conception of the shabti in the New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period. In Eyre, C. J. (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge, 3–9 September 1995, 893–901. Leuven: Peeters.
- Previous Owner
- University of Wales, Aberystwyth
- Acquisition
- Gift, The University of Wales, Aberystwyth (24 Mar 1997)
- Inscription
-
wsi͗r pꜣ-di͗-i͗mn mꜣꜥ-ḫrw The Osiris Padiamun, true of voice
- Language
- Egyptian
- Script
- Hieroglyphic
- Personal Name
- Padiamun (pꜣ-di͗-i͗mn)
- Last modified: 24 Mar 2022