Catalogue of Inscribed Shabtis in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Catalogue of Inscribed Shabtis in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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253 Model coffin and mummy, name illegible
Model coffin and mummy.
Coffin made of bright blue faience, mummy of wood linen and plaster.
Coffin base re-joined through centre and lid through feet; nose broken off and surface
very pitted. Plaster on face of mummy chipped.
The model anthropomorphic coffin is well modelled but the features are indistinct; it
wears a lappet wig and fancy impressed collar.
The shabti consists of linen bandages over a wood core. The head area is plastered
and has polychrome decoration; red face with full eyes painted in white and outlined
in black, black eyebrows, lappet wig outlined in black and filled with what is now
pale green paint and a five strand collar in black between the lappets of the wig.
There is an illegible column of impressed text down the front of the coffin lid with
border to top and sides and an illegible column of text in black ink down the front of
the body of the mummy.
Coffin H 205, max W 90 mm
Shabti H 148, max W 54 mm
Transferred from the Wellcome Institute, 1969. [R165/1946]
1969W3670
New Kingdom
254 Model coffin and mummy, uninscribed
Model coffin and mummy
Both made of crude red pottery.
Coffin base re-joined through centre, lid re-joined from three fragments and only the
head and torso survive.
Deep coffin the sides of which were decorated with red and yellow vertical stripes,
now much faded. The facial features on the lid are very indistinct. The front wig
lappets are painted yellow with red bands. Both upper and lower arms are indicated in
relief. There are traces of red, white and yellow paint on the body.
The mummy again has indistint facial features and wears a lappet wig painted yellow
on the front lappets and with red and yellow stripes on the back; arms are indicated in
relief.
There are no traces of an inscription.
Coffin H 225, max W 75 mm
Shabti H 165, max W 50 mm
Transferred from the Wellcome Institute, 1969. [21894]
1969W4323
Memphis
New Kingdom
Stevens sale catalogue 03.07.1923, lot 298
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