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<em>Ushabti</em>, ca. 1075-712 B.C.E. Faience, 4 9/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in. (11.6 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.374. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.374_view1.jpg)
Ushabti, ca. 1075-712 B.C.E. Faience, 4 9/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in. (11.6 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.374. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.374_view1.jpg)
<em>Ushabti</em>, ca. 1075-712 B.C.E. Faience, 4 9/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in. (11.6 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.374. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.374_view1.jpg)

Ushabti, ca. 1075-712 B.C.E. Faience, 4 9/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in. (11.6 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.374. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.374_view1.jpg)

<em>Ushabti</em>, ca. 1075-712 B.C.E. Faience, 4 9/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in. (11.6 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.374. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.374_view2.jpg)

Ushabti, ca. 1075-712 B.C.E. Faience, 4 9/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in. (11.6 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.374. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.374_view2.jpg)

<em>Ushabti</em>, ca. 1075-712 B.C.E. Faience, 4 9/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in. (11.6 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.374. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.374_view3.jpg)

Ushabti, ca. 1075-712 B.C.E. Faience, 4 9/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in. (11.6 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.374. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.374_view3.jpg)

<em>Ushabti</em>, ca. 1075-712 B.C.E. Faience, 4 9/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in. (11.6 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.374. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.374_view4.jpg)

Ushabti, ca. 1075-712 B.C.E. Faience, 4 9/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in. (11.6 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.374. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.374_view4.jpg)

<em>Ushabti</em>, ca. 1075-712 B.C.E. Faience, 4 9/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in. (11.6 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.374. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.374_view5.jpg)

Ushabti, ca. 1075-712 B.C.E. Faience, 4 9/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in. (11.6 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.374. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.374_view5.jpg)

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Ushabti

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

MEDIUM Faience
  • Place Made: Egypt
    • DATES ca. 1075-712 B.C.E.
    DYNASTY Dynasty 21 to Dynasty 23 (possibly)
    PERIOD Third Intermediate Period
    DIMENSIONS 4 9/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in. (11.6 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm)  (show scale)
    COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
    ACCESSION NUMBER 16.374
    CREDIT LINE Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour
    CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Blue-green faience ushabti of a man. Unusual type with dress of life, right hand grasping flail (?) and left arm at side. Left leg advanced. Painted inscription down front of dress presumably with name but now illegible. Condition; poor. Badly fired, glaze worn.
    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
    CAPTION Ushabti, ca. 1075-712 B.C.E. Faience, 4 9/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in. (11.6 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.374. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.374_view1.jpg)
    IMAGE overall, CUR.16.374_view1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2013
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    <em>Ushabti</em>, ca. 1075-712 B.C.E. Faience, 4 9/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in. (11.6 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.374. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.374_view1.jpg)

    TAGS

    Blue-green
    ca. 1075-712 B.C.E.
    Dress of Life
    Egypt
    Faience
    Flail
    Funerary figurine
    Glazed
    Inscription
    Man
    Painted
    Shabti
    Shabty
    Shawabti
    Third Intermediate Period
    Ushabti
    Ushebti
    XXI Dynasty to XXIII Dynasty (possibly)

    TAGS

    Blue-green
    ca. 1075-712 B.C.E.
    Dress of Life
    Egypt
    Faience
    Flail
    Funerary figurine
    Glazed
    Inscription
    Man
    Painted
    Shabti
    Shabty
    Shawabti
    Third Intermediate Period
    Ushabti
    Ushebti
    XXI Dynasty to XXIII Dynasty (possibly)

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