Fragment of a shabti of the 4th prophet of Amun Mentuemhat

Third Intermediate Period–Late Period

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 130

Large stone shabtis, known from the late Middle Kingdom and 18th Dynasty, reappeared in the 25th Dynasty for the pharaohs, Theban God's Wives, and highest officials of Dynasty 25 at Thebes. Mentuemhat, the powerful 'count' of the Theban region, had several such shabtis. Three of them (19.3.5-19.3.7) were excavated by the Metropolitan Museum in the vicinity of his tomb in Western Thebes. This fragment entered the museum before the Egyptian Art Department was founded in 1906.

Fragment of a shabti of the 4th prophet of Amun Mentuemhat, Serpentinite

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Fragment of a shabti of the 4th prophet of Amun Mentuemhat, Serpentinite
Fragment of a shabti of the 4th prophet of Amun Mentuemhat, Serpentinite
Fragment of a shabti of the 4th prophet of Amun Mentuemhat, Serpentinite
Fragment of a shabti of the 4th prophet of Amun Mentuemhat, Serpentinite

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