Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.
1613438818
Carved and painted polychrome wooden shabti of Nbt pr ʿy-y with a black lappet-wig, a modelled white face with black and white eyes and red lips, two red neck-creases, a red, black and white collar, a black body and joined yellow hands holding two yellow hoes; the leg section is inscribed with Chapter 6 of the Book of The Dead in five rows of yellow painted Hieroglyphs; the back is decorated with a yellow painted representation of a seed-basket hanging down the back of one arm.
© The Trustees of the British Museum
To license images for charged-for journals and publications, and other commercial uses, please contact British Museum Images.
Contact BM images
You are permitted to use images from the British Museum website subject to our terms of use.
The image will be released to you under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. You can read more about the British Museum and Creative Commons here.
If you cannot see an image that you want on the British Museum website, you can order new photography from us.
Order new image