Ushabti figure
Ushabti figure

Currently not on view

Ushabti figure,

1650–1558 BCE

Egyptian, 17th Dynasty
y1946-381

Information

Title
Ushabti figure
Dates

1650–1558 BCE

Medium
Wood
Dimensions
19.5 x 5.1 x 4.4 cm (7 11/16 x 2 x 1 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Object Number
y1946-381
Place Collected

Egypt, Thebes

Culture
Egyptian (ancient)
Period
Seventeenth Dynasty
Type
ushabti, funerary objects
Materials
wood
Subject
figures (representations)

Acquired by the Metropolitan Museum from the Ira Nelson Morris collection; given to the Museum in 1946

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