Description
This ushabti depicts a mummified figure with arms folded on the chest. The figure has long hair painted black, a hoe in the right hand, and a mattock in the left. There is an inscription on the front, incised, and filled with blue paint.
Provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [from Upper Egypt]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Translation] Overseer of the Marshlands, Sa-saty; [Inscription] Extract from Chapter 6 of the Book of the Dead
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1914
