Shawabti (Primary Title)
Funerary Figure (Alternate Title)
Unknown (Artist)
Compared with the other shabtis in this display, these three examples are far less detailed and were mass-produced using molds. The shabtis date to a period when traditional Egyptian practices existed alongside those of the Macedonian Greeks, who ruled Egypt during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.
Ptolemaic Period
Gift of Mr. John D. Archbold
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