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Highlights Of Manchester Museum, No. 6: A Wooden Shabti Of King Sety I

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Issue 103

Campbell Price takes a closer look at one of his favourite objects from Manchester Museum’s collection.

- Campbell Price

Highlights Of Manchester Museum, No. 6: A Wooden Shabti Of King Sety I

Shabti figurines are among the most common Egyptian objects in museum collections. The most prevalent royal shabtis you are likely to encounter are those of King Sety I (c. 1294-79 BC). Estimates vary, but it is probable that Sety had over a thousand shabtis – the largest number of any New Kingdom king. Different materials were used for the shabtis, including faience, alabaster and steatite – but the most common material was wood.

After his 1817 discovery of the tomb of Sety I in the Valley of the Kings (KV17), the Italian strongman explorer Giovanni Belzoni (1778-1823) gave an account of its contents. He described “scattered in various places, an immense quantity of small wooden figures of mummies six or eight inches long, and covered with asphaltum to preserve them.”Modern analysis of some examples has identified the species of wood as juniper. It is said that many of these resin-coated wooden

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