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<em>Anonymous Shabty</em>, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.121E_erg456.jpg)
Anonymous Shabty, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.121E_erg456.jpg)
<em>Anonymous Shabty</em>, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.121E_erg456.jpg)

Anonymous Shabty, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.121E_erg456.jpg)

<em>Anonymous Shabty</em>, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 37.121E_NegA_glass_bw_SL4.jpg)

Anonymous Shabty, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 37.121E_NegA_glass_bw_SL4.jpg)

<em>Anonymous Shabty</em>, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.121E_NegH-2_print_bw.jpg)

Anonymous Shabty, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.121E_NegH-2_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Anonymous Shabty</em>, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.121E_NegN_print_bw.jpg)

Anonymous Shabty, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.121E_NegN_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Anonymous Shabty</em>, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.121E_NegM_print_bw.jpg)

Anonymous Shabty, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.121E_NegM_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Anonymous Shabty</em>, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.121E_NegH-1_print_bw.jpg)

Anonymous Shabty, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.121E_NegH-1_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Anonymous Shabty</em>, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.121E_NegL_print_bw.jpg)

Anonymous Shabty, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.121E_NegL_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Anonymous Shabty</em>, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 37.121E_NegB_glass_bw_SL4.jpg)

Anonymous Shabty, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 37.121E_NegB_glass_bw_SL4.jpg)

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Anonymous Shabty

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

A shabty was supposed to take the place of its owner whenever heavy labor was required in the afterlife. This finely detailed example carries two hand hoes, two baskets, and a yoke. It is unusual for so fine a shabty to lack the owner’s name, which bound it in eternal service to the individual. There are traces of paint on the eyes and eyebrows; perhaps the name was also painted. The damage at the bottom of the chin, apparently caused by the removal of a beard, suggests that this shabty was originally made for a man and later reworked for a woman.
MEDIUM Limestone, pigment
  • Place Made: Egypt
    • DATES ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E.
    DYNASTY Dynasty 18
    PERIOD New Kingdom
    DIMENSIONS 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm)  (show scale)
    COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
    ACCESSION NUMBER 37.121E
    CREDIT LINE Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
    CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Uninscribed limestone schwabti wearing a lappet wig. The figure is in mummiform and the hands are crossed opposite. In the right hand it holds a hoe and a seed basket. In the left hand it holds a mattock and a seed basket. Across the chest is a yoke. The ears are pierced and there are traces of black paint on the eyes and eyebrows. A circular chip under the chin indicates that it had a beard which may have been broken off or may have been removed to make it a woman's schwabti. Condition: good. Chip under the chin, chip on right front of the base.
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    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
    CAPTION Anonymous Shabty, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.121E_erg456.jpg)
    IMAGE overall, CUR.37.121E_erg456.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 9/6/2007
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    <em>Anonymous Shabty</em>, ca. 1400–1390 or ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (25 x 7.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.121E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.121E_erg456.jpg)

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    Egypt
    New Kingdom
    Dynasty XVIII
    Dynasty 18
    Eighteenth Dynasty
    New York Historic Society Collection
    lappetwig
    Uninscribed
    Funeary Object
    Funeary Figurine
    Paint
    Religious
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    earlier ushabtis
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    Shabty
    Ushebti
    Limestone
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    Crook and Flail
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    TAGS

    ushabti
    shabti
    funerary
    panted
    Egypt
    New Kingdom
    Dynasty XVIII
    Dynasty 18
    Eighteenth Dynasty
    New York Historic Society Collection
    lappetwig
    Uninscribed
    Funeary Object
    Funeary Figurine
    Paint
    Religious
    statue
    earlier ushabtis
    egyptian
    Shabty
    Ushebti
    Limestone
    Funerary object
    Crook and Flail
    Shawabti

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