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Ushabti of Kaha
(Ancient Egypt and Nubia )
This mummiform figure has long hair painted black with yellow and red cross lines at the ends. He carries painted whips in his hands, and a mattock in his right hand and a hoe in his left behind his shoulders. He wears painted necklaces. His flesh is red. The piece has incriptions on the front and sides.
There is a deep crack from the head down.
Kaha was one of two chief workmen at Deir el-Medina, the city of the craftsmen, who carved and decorated the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. He was responsible for the large tomb of Ramesses II, the Great.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Abemayor, Cairo [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as 18th Dynsaty, no. 3, B.]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2004-2005 | Carved for Immortality. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Egypt, Western Thebes, Tomb TT360 (Deir el-Medina) (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1931
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.
22.192