Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 1 page
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Source Description
This ushabti has long hair and wears a red-painted necklace. It has folded arms with tools incised in the right hand including a hoe and a sack. In the left is a mattock and a sack. There is nothing on the back. An inscription runs in horizontal bands on the front. This is a stock figure sold by the undertaker ready to order. The places where the names go are left blank, the name of the deceased is to be inserted when it is ordered by the bereaved family.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
776
label
Ushabti
core
obj
dtoType
sculpture
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
776
sourceUrl
contentType
sculpture
stage
normalized
title
Ushabti
description
This ushabti has long hair and wears a red-painted necklace. It has folded arms with tools incised in the right hand including a hoe and a sack. In the left is a mattock and a sack. There is nothing on the back. An inscription runs in horizontal bands on the front. This is a stock figure sold by the undertaker ready to order. The places where the names go are left blank, the name of the deceased is to be inserted when it is ordered by the bereaved family.
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1550-1069 BCE (New Kingdom)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Sculpture
ushabti
figurines
statuettes
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 8 7/16 in. (21.5 cm)
Source extras
cul
Egyptian
med
limestone with traces of red paint
creator_ids
6182
collection_ids
EGY
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
b6a93b99c0744797