Context (Found together / assemblage)
2008.77 was entered into the accession register as '10 pieces of offering dishes' but there are, in fact, other types of artefacts and not all are offering dishes. See individual suffixes for details. 19/6/2015 I.Gunn
Event Date 19/6/2015
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Fragment of faience shabti, upper body and feet missing. Inscribed surface on front, pillar on reverse. Light blue faience, almost entirely worn away.
Event Date 19/6/2015
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
A note was included with these artefacts that reads: 'offering dishes picked up near pyramids by H.C. Green (4,000 years old).'
Event Date 18/3/2016
Author: Sarah Nankivell

Context (Amendments / updates)
This shabti was originally catalogued as from the Middle Kingdom or the New Kingdom. Glenn Janes examined this shabti in May 2018. He dates it to the Late Period, 26th-30th Dynasty and the Period field has been updated accordingly.
Event Date 5/2018
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Glenn Janes (2018): 'Mid-torso and upper legs fragment from a light blue glazed faience ushabti. Incised mostly illegible inscription.'
Event Date 5/2018
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Related Documents)
Glenn Janes, author of The Shabti Collections, examined this shabti in March 2018 as part of a survey of MAA's entire shabti collection, which continued in May 2018. Janes generated a spreadsheet detailing his analysis of the collection, see Doc.417.
Event Date 5/2018
Author: Lucie Carreau