Catalogue of Inscribed Shabtis in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Catalogue of Inscribed Shabtis in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
The illuminated one, the Osiris Mery-Aset
she says: O these shabtis
if (one) assigns, if (one) reckons
(Mery-Aset) to do any work in
the necropolis
H 150, max W 40 mm
Transferred from the Wellcome Institute, 1969 [NN]. (MacGregor lot 1337/2)
1969W1102
New Kingdom
114 Mery-Re
Model anthropomorphic coffin and shabti.
Coffin made of limestone, shabti of alabaster.
Coffin intact; foot broken and right arm and shoulder
damaged on shabti.
The coffin lid has a lappet wig, no hands. The shabti
has a lappet wig, slightly longer at the back than the
front but no hands or implements. The face is made
from more crystalline alabaster and appears to have
been added separately.
Both the coffin lid and the shabti have a single column
of incised text down the front. The coffin lid originally
had red borders, the shabti incised ones. Both texts are
identical:
shd --hrw
The illuminated one, scribe, Mery-Re, true of voice.
Coffin: H 117, max W 52 mm
Shabti: H 80, max W 23 mm
Transferred from the Wellcome Institute, 1969
[R162/1946]; MacGregor sale, lot 1352/10.
1969W3671
New Kingdom
115 Meret-Amun
Bright blue faience
Well preserved.
Fairly crude workmanship with indistinct modelling on face; head bent slightly to one
side.
Black painted details - two hoes, straight line mouth, open eyes, eyebrows. Solid wig,
trapezoidal basket with diamond hatching and two shoulder straps. Trace of
unidentified object painted in right hand, with faded indistinct black area below left
elbow - possibly a painted seed bag?
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