Shabti of Paenrenut
New Kingdom, Ramesside
Shabtis were small magical figures deposited in a tomb to answer for the deceased should he or she be called upon to do labor in the afterlife. In the New Kingdom, shabtis could be placed in a variety of spaces as a mean to extend their owners' presence over space and time. This polychrome figure belongs to Paenrenenutet, whose name appears on shabtis and a shabti-box in Berlin and Krakow collections. A similar shabti was recently found in a mixed fill in a Theban tomb, where it was excavated along with funerary equpiment of seven other men of the Ramesside Period.
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