Lot 58
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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SHABTI OF SETY I

Details
AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SHABTI OF SETY I
NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XIX, 1306-1290 B.C.

The pharaoh depicted with idealizing features, wearing an undecorated wig, the arms crossed holding a hoe in each hand, inscribed with five rows of hieroglyhs below with a version of Spell VI of the Book of the Dead, invoking this shabti to serve as a surrogate for the pharaoh if he was called upon to labor in the hereafter, with traces of the bitumen in which it was covered before being originally wrapped in linen, 8 3/16in. (20.8cm.) high
Exhibited
The Dallas Museum of Art, 1992-93.

Lot Essay

The tomb of Sety I was excavated by Giovanni Battista Belzoni in the early 19th century. Many shabti from the tomb are now in museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The British Museum. For similar examples see pp.79-81 and pls. 12-13 in Aubert and Aubert, Statuettes Égyptiennes: Chaouabtis, Ouchebtis.