shabti-box;
shabti
- Museum number
- EA41548
- Description
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Painted wooden shabti-box which contained twelve painted shabtis (six in each compartment); Hieroglyphic text on sides and top naming Henutmehyt.
- Dimensions
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Height: 35 centimetres (box)
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Length: 34 centimetres (box)
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Weight: 2 kilograms
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Width: 19.20 centimetres (box)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Published: Art and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt (Japan 1999-2000): No 111;
N. Strudwick, Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt, London 2006, pp. 216-7.
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Published: J. H. Taylor, 'The Burial Assemblage of Henutmehyt: Inventory, Date and Provenance' in W. V. Davies (ed), Studies in Egyptian Antiquities: A Tribute to T. G. H. James (BM Occasional Paper 123, 1999), 59-72.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2010 4th Nov-2011 6th March, Round Reading Room BM, Book of the Dead
2012 July -September, Tokyo, Mori museum, The Book of the Dead: Journey Through the Afterlife
2012, October - November, Fukuoka Museum of Art, The Book of the Dead
2013, May - September, Perth, Western Australian Museum, The Book of the Dead
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1905
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA41548
- Registration number
- 1905,0515.38.a
