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Wooden shabti box

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Title/s	Wooden shabti box
Category	funerary equipment
Name	shabti box
Description	shabti box, with painted decoration of protective deities, surmounted by ba bird. The shabti box is in the form of a shrine - images of a door and the four sons of Horus (who appear in funerary contexts) are painted onto the outsides.
Field Collection	Thebes
Dimensions	depth 24.7 cm height 40.8 cm width 22.7 cm
Period	Ptolemaic period New Kingdom
Date	332 B.C. — 30 B.C.
Provenance	bought: Budge, Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis 1887 (Filtered for: Antiquities)
Documentation	Budge, E.A. Wallis (1893) Catalogue of the Egyptian collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1893) [comments: no. 11]
Material/s	wood
Accession Number	E.10.1887 (Antiquities) (Reference Number: 49096; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-12)

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Wooden shabti box