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| Keywords: Egyptian - Box for Ushabtis or Canopic Jars - Walters 626 - Three Quarter.jpg During the New Kingdom ushabti figures were often placed in a painted wooden box shaped like a shrine Only the sides of this box are preserved and it may have held a number of ushabti figures or a set of canopic jars The deities associated with death and the afterlife are represented on the box's panels There is the figure of a jackal on top of a shrine which represents the embalming god Anubis Isis and Nephthys flank the large symbol of Osiris and the four sons of Horus All of the inscriptions are related to the god Osiris ca 850 700 BC Third Intermediate wood with paint cm 41 27 20 accession number 62 6 2451 Dr J Beekmans Holland Robert T Clough Keighley Yorkshire Walters Art Museum 1965 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the S A P Fund 1965 In Search of Ancient Treasure 40 Years of Collecting The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1978 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian art in the Walters Art Museum Works of the Egyptian third intermediate period Ushabti box Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
