Shabti, with text
Egyptian, possibly Thebes, Egypt, Africa
Probably Dynasty 22 (945-730 BCE)
Faience with manganese glaze
Overall: 5 x 1 9/16 x 1 1/4 in. (12.7 x 4 x 3.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.25998
Geography/Culture
Africa, Northern Africa, Egypt
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Funerary Equipment
Classification
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Inscription
Collector’s label: Egyptian ushabti. Blue glaze. 1500 years B.C. D. Hilton Price collection (AJ)
Course History
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth, Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12, 2011-August 13, 2012.
Provenance
Frederick George Hilton Price (1842-1909) Collection; to Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to to his daughter Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.
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