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Ushabti
1550-1069 BCE (New Kingdom)
limestone with black paint
(Ancient Egypt and Nubia )
(Ancient Egypt and Nubia )
This mummiform figure has folded arms. In the right is a mattock with a cord to a sack behind the figure's left shoulder. In the left hand is a hoe. The figure's eyes are painted, and there is a painted inscription on the front.
Inscription
Provenance
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Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Egypt (Place of Origin)
Measurements
L: 8 7/16 in. (21.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1922
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
22.317