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Wooden shabti box
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.
Depth: 24.7 cm
Height: 40.8 cm
Width: 22.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1887) by Budge, Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis
Ptolemaic Period
New Kingdom
-332
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-30
Accession number: E.10.1887
Primary reference Number: 49096
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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