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Shawabty of the "god's wife" Maatkara
Shawabty of the "god's wife" Maatkara

Shawabty of the "god's wife" Maatkara

1070–1032 B.C.
FindspotDeir el-Bahari, Thebes, Egypt
Country of Origin, for CustomsEgypt
Medium/TechniqueBlue faience with black painted details
DimensionsHeight: 11.8 cm (4 5/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Horace L. Mayer
Accession number56.1269
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTomb equipment
ProvenanceFrom Thebes, Deir el-Bahari cache, DB 320 (cleared 1881); Luigi Vassalli Collection (d. 1887); by 1956: Horace L. Mayer Collection; 1956, gift of Horace L. Mayer to MFA.
(Accession Date: December 1, 1956)
Shawabty
1070–945 B.C.
Pectoral
1070–945 B.C.
Male figurine
Naqada II (Gerzean) 3650–3300 B.C.
Pocketbook
1780–1800
Folding fan
Victor Eeckhout
about 1875
Fan
1770s
Trafalgar chintz
John Bury
about 1806