Description 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. -
In Search of Ancient Treasure: 40 Years of Collecting. The
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1978. Provenance Dr. J.
Beekmans, Holland; Robert T. Clough, Keighley, Yorkshire;
Walters Art Museum, 1965, by purchase. Credit Museum purchase
with funds provided by the S. & A. P. Fund, 1965 Download Images
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