Shabti of Padiamunipet

Fragment from the lower part of a stone shabti of Padiamenipet. Three (surviving) horizontal bands of inscription which almost encircle the body, give the owner’s name and part of Chapter 6 of the Book of the Dead. Carved from a hard granite-like form of steatite. Stuck to the surface was a white rectangular label with printed number 715 stuck over a similar label with the number 290; part of a sticker with an ornate blue border with "85" in pencil. Sold at Sotheby's 19-21 December 1906 lot 85/6: "Six fragments (torsoes etc) of sepulchral figures in granite and stone some with names" (1906 p. 8).