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Ushabti
(Ancient Egypt and Nubia )
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
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Egypt (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 8 7/16 in. (21.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1914
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
22.168