Ushabti / Faience
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 1971.02.0170
- Object Name
- Ushabti
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Shabti
- Materials
- Faience
- Length
- 4.5;
- Width
- 5;
- Height
- 17;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;278g
- Completeness
- Root_node_for_object_completen
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Faience ushabti with painted details and an inscription. This ushabti and 1971.02.0169, were made for the burial of Pinudjem, a high priest of Amun. The text on each is from chapter six of the Book of the Dead, and translates as follows:
- "Illumintating the High Priest of Amun, Pinudjem, true of voice. May he say: O this ushabti! If the late Pinudjem is assigned any work that is to be done in the god's domain—to make the fields grow, to irrigate the banks, to carry sand from the east to the west—you will say 'I am here'"
- Subjects
- Pinudjem II
- Earliest Date
- 1070 BCE
- Latest Date
- 950 BCE
- Verbatim Date
- 1070-946 BC
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Case 13 - Temple
- Exhibition Curator
- Wilfong, Terry
- Publication Title
- Passionate Curiosities: Tales of Collectors & Collections from the Kelsey Museum
- Publication Author
- Talalay, Lauren E.; Cool, Margaret Root
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 1971.02.0170
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1971.02.0170/dscn2780.jpg
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"Ushabti; Faience". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1971.02.0170/dscn2780.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 30, 2023.