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Usabti of Nehy, Viceroy of Kush
Artist:
EGYPT, XVIII DYNASTY
Date: 15th century BC
Medium: sandstone
Classification: Visual Works
Credit Line: Gift of George Perkins Marsh
Object number: 1910.6.1 LA
DescriptionMummiform statue with crossed arms and closed fists; wearing royal Osirian beard and large wig; 5 vertical column of inscription in relief carving: The King's son (viceroy and overseer of the Southern Foreign Lands (Kush) Nehi, justified he says: 'O this ushabti, of the king's son is reckoned in the necropolis to do any labor which is done therein to plant the fields, to irrigate the field, or to transport the sand of the west to the east. I shall do it. Behold you shall say.' Face painted yellow with brown eyes; yellow stripes on wig; in back in ink: tomb on the Nile presented to GP Marsh by Khediv. Hole drilled in back and through bottom; grey paint around edges of feet with traces on back; sheared at buttocks
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