Shabti of the Scribe of the Double Treasury Userhetmose
This funerary figure (shabti) is inscribed for a Scribe of the Double Treasury named Userhetmose. The burial of this high official was discovered in the Bab el-Gusus, a large tomb dug into the bedrock of the Theban West Bank. Userhetmose was one of 153 members of the Theban elite who were buried here.
Longer title strings on Userhetmose's other burial equipment (including a set of coffins, an Osiris shroud, two funerary papyri, and a stela) tell us that he was a Pure Priest of Amun, a Pure Priest at the Prow of the Sacred Barque of Mut, and the Scribe of the Treasury of the First Great Chief of the Khener (musical troupe) of Amun. This last title connects him with the head of the female clergy of Amun, a position held toward the end of Dynasty 21 by Djedmutesankh, whose funerary assemblage is on display in Gallery 126.
See also 10.130.1052a for a different type of shabti belonging to the same burial.
Longer title strings on Userhetmose's other burial equipment (including a set of coffins, an Osiris shroud, two funerary papyri, and a stela) tell us that he was a Pure Priest of Amun, a Pure Priest at the Prow of the Sacred Barque of Mut, and the Scribe of the Treasury of the First Great Chief of the Khener (musical troupe) of Amun. This last title connects him with the head of the female clergy of Amun, a position held toward the end of Dynasty 21 by Djedmutesankh, whose funerary assemblage is on display in Gallery 126.
See also 10.130.1052a for a different type of shabti belonging to the same burial.
Artwork Details
- Title: Shabti of the Scribe of the Double Treasury Userhetmose
- Period: Third Intermediate Period
- Dynasty: Dynasty 21
- Reign: pontificate of Painedjem II(?)
- Date: ca. 990–975 B.C.
- Geography: Presumably from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Bab el-Gasus, Burial of Userhatmes (Daressy A.105), Egyptian Antiquities Service excavations, 1891
- Medium: Faience
- Dimensions: H. 12.1 cm (4 3/4 in.)
- Credit Line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910
- Object Number: 10.130.1051
- Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art
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