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<em>Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten</em>, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.42_view4.jpg)
Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.42_view4.jpg)
<em>Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten</em>, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.42_view1.jpg)

Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.42_view1.jpg)

<em>Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten</em>, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.42_view.jpg)

Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.42_view.jpg)

<em>Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten</em>, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.42_view4.jpg)

Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.42_view4.jpg)

<em>Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten</em>, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.42_view5.jpg)

Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.42_view5.jpg)

<em>Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten</em>, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.42_view3.jpg)

Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.42_view3.jpg)

<em>Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten</em>, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.42_NegID_35.1873GRPA_print_cropped_bw.jpg)

Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.42_NegID_35.1873GRPA_print_cropped_bw.jpg)

<em>Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten</em>, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.35.1876_16.42_35.1873_NegID_35.1873GRPA_print_bw.jpg)

Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.35.1876_16.42_35.1873_NegID_35.1873GRPA_print_bw.jpg)

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Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

MEDIUM Sandstone
  • Place Made: Tell el-Amarna, Egypt
    • DATES ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E.
    DYNASTY late Dynasty 18
    PERIOD New Kingdom, Amarna Period
    DIMENSIONS 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm) width at elbows: 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm)  (show scale)
    COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
    ACCESSION NUMBER 16.42
    CREDIT LINE Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour
    CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Incomplete reddish sandstone Ushabti of Akhenaton. Arms crossed, with hands grasping the crook and flail. Column of incised inscription (titulary of king) down front of body. Condition: Head missing. Body mising from knees down. Surface weathered.
    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
    CAPTION Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.42_view4.jpg)
    IMAGE overall, CUR.16.42_view4.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2014
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    <em>Fragmentary Shabti of Akhenaten</em>, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Sandstone, 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.42. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.42_view4.jpg)

    TAGS

    18th Dynasty
    Akhenaton
    Amarna
    Amarna Period
    ca. 1539-1292 B.C.E.
    Crook
    Egypt
    Egyptian
    El Amarna
    Faience
    Flail
    Fragment
    Funerary figurine
    Inscription
    Late XVIII Dynasty
    New Kingdom
    Painted
    Sandstone
    Shabti
    Shabty
    Shawabti
    Tell el Amarna
    Torso
    Ushabti
    Ushebti

    TAGS

    18th Dynasty
    Akhenaton
    Amarna
    Amarna Period
    ca. 1539-1292 B.C.E.
    Crook
    Egypt
    Egyptian
    El Amarna
    Faience
    Flail
    Fragment
    Funerary figurine
    Inscription
    Late XVIII Dynasty
    New Kingdom
    Painted
    Sandstone
    Shabti
    Shabty
    Shawabti
    Tell el Amarna
    Torso
    Ushabti
    Ushebti

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