Box for Ushabtis or Canopic Jars

ca. 850-700 BCE (Third Intermediate Period)

27 cm 41 cm 20 cm

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During the New Kingdom, ushabti figures were often placed in a painted wooden box shaped like a shrine. Only the sides of this box are preserved, and it may have held a number of ushabti figures or a set of canopic jars. The deities associated with death and the afterlife are...

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Dr. J. Beekmans, Holland; Robert T. Clough, Keighley, Yorkshire; Walters Art Museum, 1965, by purchase.
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