Sedment / Ushabti / Paint / Pigment / Wood

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.1903
Object Name: Ushabti
Lot: Petrie, Flinders
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Shabti
Materials: Paint; Pigment; Wood
Length: 4.5;
Width: 6.3;
Height: 19;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;118g
Completeness: Root_node_for_object_completen
Pierced: no
Inscribed: yes
Full Artifact Description: Blue painted long wig, white back, yellow front with red painted crook and flail in crossed arms and black hieroglyphs. Features painted. Good condition.; Found in Tomb 134 at Sedment, which belonged to the family of Ramose (an overseer of record keepers) and his wife Thiy.
Subjects: undecorated
Verbatim Date: 1293 - 1185 BC
Unit Grid Number: Tomb 134
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Sedment
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Napoleon's Legacy: The European Exploration of Egypt; Case 20 - Petrie Gift
Exhibition Curator: Reister, Pamela; Richards, Janet
Exhibition Year: 2009
Publication Title: Napoleon’s legacy : the European exploration of Egypt. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from September 26 to December 21, 1984.
Publication Year: 1984
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.1903
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1903/dscn2944.jpg

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Full citation: "Sedment; Ushabti; Paint; Pigment; Wood." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1903/dscn2944.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.