This shabti in green faience was discovered in a pyramid at Nuri. The statuette, which bears the hieroglyphic text of the Chapter 6 from the Book of the Dead, is in the name of Madiqan, daughter of the king Senkamanisken (E.6097, E.6099, E.6103, E.6109A-B) and wife of the kings Anlamani (see E.6108) and Aspelta (see E.7106A-B). She wears a long wig crowned by the skin of a vulture. In the hands, she holds a pair of hoes. The left shoulder supports a square sack suspended by a cord.
FORMED BY HAND; PAINTED; ENGRAVED; FAYENCE; ENGRAVED; WRITTEN WITH A REED PEN/REED WITH SPLIT NIB
Height
17 cm
Bibliography
G. Reisner, Preliminary Report on the Havard-Boston Excavations at Nuri: the Kings of Ethiopia after Tirhaqa, in Havard African Studies, Varia Africana II, Cambridge (USA) 1918, 36
M. Werbrouck, Archéologie de Nubie. Napata, BMRAH 14 (1942) 26-31
D. Dunham, The Royal Cemeteries of Kush. Volume II. Nuri, Boston 1955, 294
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