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Shawabty (funerary servant figurine)

Shawabty (funerary servant figurine)

Faience
Height: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Dorothy Allendoerfer
79.28
Provenance: James Barnett (1816-1884), Cairo, Egypt [missionary from 1854-1861 and 1865-1873]; to his granddaughter-in-law, Dorothy H. Allendoerfer (Mrs. Carl B. Allendoerfer); gift from Mrs. Allendoerfer to the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, July 17,1979
location
Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Published ReferencesAubert, J-F and L., Statuettes Egyptiennes: Chaouabtis, Ouchebtis, Paris: 1974, 173-4, pl. 41 (no. 98).

Teeter, Emily, Egyptian Art in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1988, no. 11, p. 20

Teeter, Emily, Varia Aegyptiaca, 7, 1991, (San Antonio) p. 31

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