Shabti of Nespernub
Inscribed for a God's Father of Amun named Nespernub, this shabti almost certainly comes from the burial of this priest in the Bab el-Gusus, a collective tomb in the forecourt of the Temple of Hatshepsut (built almost 500 years earlier) on the West Bank at Thebes. Nespernub's coffins (KHM 6270 and KHM 6269) and mummy board (KHM 6268), now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, once had gilded faces, wigs, and hands, attesting to his high status and wealth. Additional titles found on these coffins and his two funerary papyri (Cairo SR 7/ 11487 and Cairo JE 95854) include Scribe and God's Father of the Temple of Mut.
Nespernub likely had two boxes to hold his shabtis; one is in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (JE 29285), along with fifteen of his shabtis. An additional forty or more, including
Nespernub likely had two boxes to hold his shabtis; one is in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (JE 29285), along with fifteen of his shabtis. An additional forty or more, including
Artwork Details
- Title: Shabti of Nespernub
- Period: Third Intermediate Period
- Dynasty: Dynasty 21
- Date: ca. 1000–950 B.C.
- Geography: Presumably from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Bab el-Gusus, Burial of Nespernub (Daressy A.143), Egyptian antiquities service excavations, 1891
- Medium: Faience
- Dimensions: H. 14.7 × W. 4.4 × D. 3 cm (5 13/16 × 1 3/4 × 1 3/16 in.)
- Credit Line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910
- Object Number: 10.130.1058
- Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art
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