Shabti from terracotta
Private person. Mummiform. Late plain lappet wig and flat back with plain artificial beard. Arms crossed on the chest with much damaged implements. Some kind of implement is visible on the right shoulder. Face is oval and much damaged. Eyes and ears are very big. Hieroglyphic inscription washed out; the remains of the two vertical lines typical for the vertical text is still visible.
P. Selem presume and wrote that this shabti was probably discovered in the area of Claudia Aequum sometime during the 19th century or the first half of the 20th century. It was most likely craft sometime between 30th and the Hellenistic period. The Roman Emperor Claudius between AD 41 and 45 found Colonia Claudia Aequum few kilometres outside the modern-day village Čitluk. Some ancient merchant or soldier most likely brought it to Illyricum from Egypt, the Hellenistic east or Italy between the middle of the 1st century and early 3rd century AD.
Cf. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden: AF112b; Balogh Adám Múzeum, Szekszárd: 59.48.1.
P. Selem presume and wrote that this shabti was probably discovered in the area of Claudia Aequum sometime during the 19th century or the first half of the 20th century. It was most likely craft sometime between 30th and the Hellenistic period. The Roman Emperor Claudius between AD 41 and 45 found Colonia Claudia Aequum few kilometres outside the modern-day village Čitluk. Some ancient merchant or soldier most likely brought it to Illyricum from Egypt, the Hellenistic east or Italy between the middle of the 1st century and early 3rd century AD.
Cf. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden: AF112b; Balogh Adám Múzeum, Szekszárd: 59.48.1.
Catalogue entry
Shabti from terracotta
Franciscan monastery, Sinj
Arhaeological collection
inv. no. R300
probably from Čitluk (Claudia Aequum), Croatia
Late Period (30th dynasty) - Ptolemaic period (33rd dynasty), 4th-1st c. B.C.
brown terracotta
10.7 x 2.7 cm
Typology: Schneider, class XIC; Tomorad class M
Resources
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