Shabti (Funerary Figurine) of Mayet

New Kingdom, Dynasty 19 (about 1295–1186 BCE)

Egyptian; probably Thebes (modern Luxor), Egypt

Status: On View, Gallery 50
Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Shabti (Funerary Figurine) of Mayet
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1295 BCE–1186 BCE
Medium: Wood, gesso, and pigment
Inscriptions: Names 'Instruction of' Osiris, the house mistress, the singer of Amon, Mayat, deceased. He says."
Dimensions: 23.5 × 6.4 × 7 cm (9 1/4 × 2 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson
Reference Number: 1894.1149
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Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), pp. 65-66, 115.
Thomas George Allen, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Documents in the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Publications 82 (University of Chicago Press, 1960), pp. 12-13, 66, 67, 73, 77, 289, pl. CXIV.

Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.

Reverend Chauncey Murch (1859-1907), Luxor, Egypt; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1894; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson, 1894.

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