Shabti of Heru-Chebit
The ancient Egyptian hieroglyhics on the back of this shabti figure show it was made for Heru-Chebit. He belonged to the great family of the Pinodjem dynasty at Thebes.
Shabti figures were buried with the dead in the belief that they would serve the spirit of the deceased in the afterlife.
It belonged to Lieutenant Colonel Montague who collected over 800 classical archaeological objects, which he bequeathed to the museum on his death.
Shabti figures were buried with the dead in the belief that they would serve the spirit of the deceased in the afterlife.
It belonged to Lieutenant Colonel Montague who collected over 800 classical archaeological objects, which he bequeathed to the museum on his death.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 5/1946/603
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Collector Excavator
- Montague, Lieutenant Colonel Leopold Agar Denys (from the collection of)
- Material
- faience | pigment | | |
- Common Name
- shabti of Heru-Chebit
- Simple Name
- shabti
- Period Classification
- 3rd Intermediate Period (Dynasties 21-25) - 1070-661 BC
- Production Town
- Production Date
- -1040
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
