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Shabti Jar Belonging to Hori
Shabti Jar Belonging to Hori

Shabti Jar Belonging to Hori

Artist Unknown
Datecirca 1295–1069 BCE
MediumNile silt clay, white slip, and black paint
DimensionsH. 8 3/4 in. x Diam. 9 7/16 in.; Inner rim diam. 4 1/4 in. (22.2 x 24 cm; 10.8 cm)
ClassificationsCeramics
Credit LineGift of the James G. Hanes Memorial Fund
Object numberG.73.8.10
On View
On view
ProvenanceMathias Komor Fine Arts & Antiquities, New York, NY; sold to NCMA, 1973.Published References"Recent Acquisitions" (exhibition catalogue), North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 12, no. 3 (March 1974), cat. no. 30, illus. (b-w) 38.

Caroline M. Rocheleau, “A Sixth Shabti Jar Belonging to Hori,” in JSSEA [Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities] 37 (2010), 79–89, illus. 80, fig. 1.

“Shabti Jar Belonging to Hori,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Fall 2012), 24–25, illus. (color) 25.

Caroline M. Rocheleau, Ancient Egyptian Art [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2012), cat. no. 16, illus. (color) 42; detail (color) and translations 117.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions,” June 16-August 18, 1974.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Egyptian Gallery, April 22, 1974-February 13, 1978.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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