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Shabti box of Khabekhnet

Unknown Artist

This shabti box belonged to a man named Khabekhnet, son of Sennedjem in whose tomb the box was found. Other objects in the collection that were discovered in the same tomb are numbered 86.1.1–86.1.29

Credit: Funds from various donors, 1886

c. 1279-1213 B.C.

Wood, gesso, paint

9.1 x 9.8 x 3.9 in

86.1.16

Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020

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