Catalogue of Inscribed Shabtis in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

74 Pa-di-Amen-ipet
Catalogue of Inscribed Shabtis in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Stone.
Legs and base missing; chip from back of head.
General modelling and facial features quite good but arms and hands clumsy and little
care given to detail.
Arms crossed right over left; both hands hold hoes, but blade of that in right hand
shorter than left. Plain tripartite lappet wig with ears exposed. Three-strand collar at
neck with crude incised hatching. No basket.
Remains of four lines of incised text around front, sides and back of body; horizontal
ruling lines; no dividing line on back to separate beginning and end of lines.
shd Wsir hry-hb hry-tp P(3)-di-imn--hrw d
hry-hb hry-tp P(3)-di-imn--hrw r irt
[ ] m hrt-ntr is hw sdb im m s r [rest lost]
The illuminated one, the Osiris, chief lector priest, Pa-di-Amen-ipet, true of voice, he
says: O this shabti
if one [calls], if one assigns (or) if one reckons the chief lector priest, Pa-di-Amenipet,
true of voice to do
[any work which is done there] in the necropolis then obstacles are put there as for a
man at [his duty .....]
H 186 (ext), max W 105; base depth [lost], W [lost]
Transferred from the Wellcome Institute, 1969 [1341]
1969W2974
[Asasif, Thebes - tomb no.33]
Late 25th or early 26 th dynasty
See JEA 63 (1977), 137-141
Chappaz 115
Aubert 201-202
CAA Allard 1,71
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