AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SHABTI OF THE PHARAOH SETY I NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XIX, REIGN OF SETY I, 1306-1290 B.C. Depicted with idealized features, wearing an undecorated tripartite wig, the arms crossed, holding a hoe in each hand, inscribed with five rows of hieroglyphs below with a version of Spell VI from the Book of the Dead, invoking this shabti to serve as a surrogate for the Pharaoh if he was called upon to labor in the hereafter, preserving traces of the bitumen in which it was covered before being originally wrapped in linen 8 3/16 in. (20.8 cm.) high
AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SHABTI OF THE PHARAOH SETY I NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XIX, REIGN OF SETY I, 1306-1290 B.C. Depicted with idealized features, wearing an undecorated tripartite wig, the arms crossed, holding a hoe in each hand, inscribed with five rows of hieroglyphs below with a version of Spell VI from the Book of the Dead, invoking this shabti to serve as a surrogate for the Pharaoh if he was called upon to labor in the hereafter, preserving traces of the bitumen in which it was covered before being originally wrapped in linen 8 3/16 in. (20.8 cm.) high
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