Description
Name owner: Bak-Wer
Title owner: The Osiris, overseer of workers
Dimensions (hxwxd): 8.1 x 3.0 x 2.0 cm
Translation hieroglyphs: The Osiris, overseer of workers, Bak-Wer, true of voice
Preservation: Faience worn
R-R: 92.9
Provenance: ex Sands of Times Antiquities, USA.
Comments: No exact parallels are published for this shabti. However, for a similar type with the same name see Schneider 3.3.1.4. Other parallels have been sold by a Dutch dealer in the 1960’s/1970’s unpublished so far and one is published by Royal Athena Gallery. I think all these shabtis, including the Leiden examples are all for the same owner. See also SC/120.
These white faience, often small, shabtis frequently appear in the 20th dynasty, compare the Vice-King Hori’s shabtis and his wife’s shabtis: Khait (SC/62).
