Catalogue of Inscribed Shabtis in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Catalogue of Inscribed Shabtis in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Single column of incised text down back and 4 lines around front with ruling lines.
shd Wsir dd.f i
r ir k3wt nb(wt) irr(wt) m hrt-ntr
imntt n i3btt r x x x
x x Wsir Hwy
The illuminated one, the Osiris, he says: O
shabti, (if) one is assigned (if) one is X
to do any works which are done in the necropolis
(to move sand by boat from) west to east (as regards a man at his duties?)
x x the Osiris Huy.
H 195, max W 81; base depth 51, W 38 mm
Transferred from the Wellcome Institute, 1969 [NN]. (MacGregor lot 1341)
1969W1086
New Kingdom
The text is quite corrupt and abreviated. In line 2 the demonstrative is omitted after
. The second verb in the the summons clause (rt?) is unclear but is clearly to do
with being called from the determinative. The uncertain group at the end of line 4
could be for r s r hrt.f but the initial part of line 5 defies interpretation. The
abreviations are obvious particularly the tasks which have been reduced simply to the
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