Ushabti for the Steward Mah in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, November 2009

Ushabti for the Steward, Mah
Sandstone
height, 0.35 meter
Anibeh (in Nubia); excavated from tomb SA 14
19th Dynasty, circa 1275 BC

# E11092

The artistic quality of this ushabti is extremely high: despite the granular nature of sandstone, a great deal of minute detail was maintained in the carving. The inscription on the figure reads, "May Osirus, the deputy of Mah, be illuminated: he says, may your sight be opened, may you see the sun disc; may you worship Re' in life; may you be summoned in the cemetery; may you wander the hills of Tjaumut; may you transverse the mountain of the upper cemetery; may you behold the hidden cavern; may you sit on the throne in the sacred land, like the great crews (of the solar barque of Re'); the steward Mah."

Text from the U. Penn. Museum label.