Shabti of Henut-wedjebu

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Shabti of Henut-wedjebu

Period New Kingdom Period Ancient Egyptian, 1550–1070 BCE

Dynasty Dynasty 18 Ancient Egyptian, 1550–1295 BCE

Place of OriginEgypt, from the tomb of Hatiay, Gurnah, Luxor

Dateabout 1350 BCE

Dimensions10 7/8 × 3 1/4 × 1 7/8 in. (27.6 × 8.3 × 4.8 cm)

Mediumdark hardwood from central Africa with Egyptian blue inlay and black pigment

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LineGift of The Georgia Welles Apollo Society

Object number

1993.52

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 02, Classic

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Sculpture

Published ReferencesPeck, William H., Sandra E. Knudsen and Paula Reich, Egypt in Toledo: The Ancient Egyptian Collection at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2011, p. 53, 54, repr. (col.) p. 53.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 63, repr. (col.).

Exhibition HistoryCincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum; Brooklyn, Brooklyln Museum, Mistress of the house, mistress of heaven: Women in ancient Egypt, 1996-97, no. 74, p. 149, repr. (col.)

Toledo, Toledo Museum of art, A Decade of Giving: the Apollo Society at the Toledo Museum of Art, 1996, p. 18, repr. (col.)

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb, 2010-2012.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Inspired Giving: The Apollo Society 25th Anniversary Exhibition, October 15, 2010-February 13, 2011, p. 22, repr. (col.) p. 22.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Daressy, M.G., "Rapport sur la trouvaille de..., " Annales du service des Antiquités de l'Egypte, 2, 1901, pp. 1-13.

See also Aubert, J.F., and L., Statuettes égyptienne chaouabtis, ouchebitis, Paris, 1974.

See also Schneider, D., Shabtis: An Introduction to the History of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Statuettes with a Catalogue of the Collection of Shabtis in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, Leiden, 1977.

See also Martin, Geoggrey T., "Shabtis of private persons in the Amarna Period," Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Abteilung Kairo, vol. 42, 1986, pp. 41-129.

See also Kozloff, A., et al, Egypt's Dazzling Sun, the World of Amenhotep III, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition catalogue, 1992, pp. 309-310, pp. 312-317, cat. no. 61, pls 34, 35.

See also Zivie, Alain, "Hatiay, Scribe du Temple D'Aton A Memphis," Egypt, Israel, and the ancient Mediterranean World; studies in honor of Donald B. Redford, Leiden; Boston, Brill, 2004, p. 226, note 10.

Label TextA skilled craftsman carved this elegant shabti (servant figure) for Henut-wedjebu, “the lady of the river banks, the singer of Amun.” A servant figure, it is mummiform—having the shape of a mummy—with an elaborate wig, crossed hands carrying agricultural implements, and inlaid hieroglyphs spelling out the standard magical text to “activate” the substitute worker: “O shabti, allotted to me, if I be summoned…to do any work which has to be done in the realm of the dead…you shall detail yourself for me on every occasion… ‘Here am I,’ you shall say.”