Shabti of a Songstress of Amun

Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker

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probably Dynasty 22 (945-710 BCE)

Faience, copper and manganese glaze

Overall: 3 3/4 × 1 7/8 × 1 1/8 in. (9.5 × 4.8 × 2.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Lawrence Herbert Hayward, Class of 1916

41.46.7656

Geography

Place Made: possibly Thebes, Thebes, Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa

Period

1000 BCE-1 CE

Object Name

Funerary Equipment

Research Area

Ancient Egypt

Africa

Not on view

Inscriptions

Text: Owner a Songstress of Amun, perhaps named Nebet-tawy; Amun may be termed ‘King of the gods’

Course History

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

REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015

REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015

REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019

REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019

Provenance

Lawrence Herbert Hayward (Class of 1916, 1893-1956), Rye Beach, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1941.

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