Shabti of Psamtek son of Amenirdas
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
Saite Period, Dynasty 26 (664–525 BCE)
Faience with pale green glaze
Overall: 9 1/16 × 2 1/16 × 1 3/8 in. (23 × 5.2 × 3.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Museum Purchase
39.64.6734
Geography/Culture
Africa, Northern Africa, Egypt
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Funerary Equipment
Classification
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Inscription
Text: Name, filiation, Book of the Dead chapter VI excerpt; perhaps part of title, “…of Amun”
Course History
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
ANTH 12.5, Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Virginia Herrmann, Winter 2014
ANTH 12.5, Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Virginia Herrmann, Winter 2014
Exhibition History
The Age of the Marvelous, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 21-November 24, 1991; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 25-March 22, 1992; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, May 24-August 25, 1992; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, October 6, 1992-January 3, 1993, naturalia no. n154.
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
Scot-Skirving collection; given to Museum and Art Gallery Reading, England, 1935; sold to present collection, 1939.
Old Number
Reading Museum # 33-27 54-35/3
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