A Note on the Turkish Lot III/1891 From the Bab el-Gasus Cache (Egypt), Kept at the Istanbul Archaeology Museums / Ancient Orient Museum

Some of the artefacts composing the corpus of the ancient Egyptian shabti figurines, presented here, are already well documented and studied while some of them are scattered in different places around the world following their discovery. The shabti figurines are still waiting to be analysed as a whole collection. The 21st Dynasty (1077-943 B.C.) tomb of the priests and priestesses of Amun, also known as the “Bab el-Gasus”, is a case study for a group of forgotten artefacts. In 2016, the confe..