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Faience shabti for the Apis Bull

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Title/s	Faience shabti for the Apis Bull
Category	funerary equipment
Name	ushabti
Description	shabti, green glazed with details in black, for Hapi
Production Notes	This shabti figure has a bull's head rather than that of a human. The shabti would help the deceased Apis fulfill tasks in the afterlife. The French Egyptologist Mariette found it during the original excavations of the Apis bull burial chambers.
Field Collection	Serapeum Saqqara Egypt
Dimensions	height 10 cm
Period	Nineteenth Dynasty New Kingdom
Date	1292 B.C. — 1070 B.C.
Provenance	bequeathed: Whyte, Edward Towry 1932 (Filtered for: Antiquities)
Inscriptions/Marks	inscription Content: sHD pA wsir Hapi Translation: the illuminated one, the Osiris, Hapi
Material/s	faience
Accession Number	E.51.1932 (Antiquities) (Reference Number: 52781; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-12)

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Faience shabti for the Apis Bull