The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Shabti box of Khabekhnet

Shabti box of Khabekhnet

Period:: New Kingdom, Ramesside
Dynasty:: Dynasty 19
Reign:: reign of Ramesses II
Date:: ca. 1279–1213 B.C.
Geography:: Country of Origin Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Deir el-Medina, Tomb of Sennedjem (TT 1), Maspero Excavations 1885–1886
Medium:: Wood, gesso, paint
Dimensions:: H. 23 cm (9 1/16 in)
Credit Line:: Funds from various donors, 1886
Accession Number:: 86.1.16

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 126

Description

This shabti box belonged to a man named Khabekhnet, son of Sennedjem in whose tomb the box was found. Other objects in the collection that were discovered in the same tomb are numbered 86.1.1–86.1.29
Provenance

Excavated by Gaston Maspero for the Egyptian Antiquities Service, 1885-1886. Sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by the Egyptian government, 1886.
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What
Sculpture (24,350)

Wood (7,651)

Boxes (1,778)

Shabti (547)

Gesso (362)
Where
Africa (33,501)

Egypt (29,889)

Upper Egypt (13,662)

Thebes (10,570)
When
2000-1000 B.C. (18,709)
In the Museum
Egyptian Art (26,254)
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Egypt, 2000–1000 B.C.