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Third Intermediate Period
Found lying loose in one area of the Pit were 374 wood shabtis inscribed with the name of Gautsoshen. Of these, 344 were workers and 30 overseers. All were painted a greenish-blue, presumably to imitate the faience of which this type of funerary figurine was normally made (see for example 25.3.19.19). These figures were meant to carry out agricultural work in the afterlife on Gautsoshen's behalf.
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Title: Six Shabtis of Gautsoshen
Period: Third Intermediate Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 21
Date: ca. 1000–945 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb MMA 60, Pit, Burial of Gautsoshen (P4), MMA excavations, 1923–24
Medium: Wood
Dimensions: H. 7 to 17 cm (2 3/4 to 6 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1925
Accession Number: 25.3.22a–f
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