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
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
