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Ushabti (Funerary Figurine) of Horudja

Ancient Egyptian · Late Period, Dynasty 30 (380–343 BCE)

Provenance

Ownership history

Found at Hawara, Egypt, 1881; Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892), London; given to the Art Institue of Chicago, 1890.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.

Literature

W.M. Flinders Petrie, Kahun, Gurob, and Hawara (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and co., 1890), p. 19.
Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 7, 71 (ill.).
Flinders Petrie, Seventy Years in Archaeology (Sampson Low, Marston & co., 1931), p. 96.
Thomas George Allen, The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Documents in the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Publications 82 (University of Chicago Press, 1960), pp. 12-13, 63, 65, 67, 75, 77, 289.
Emily Teeter, “Egypt in Chicago: A Story of Three Collections,” in Millions of Jubilees: Studies in Honor of David P. Silverman, ed. Zahi Hawass and Jennifer Houser Wegner (Conseil Suprême des Antiquités, 2010), vol. 2, p. 303.
Karen B. Alexander, "From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 20, fig. 4.
Emily Teeter, <a href="https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/57"><em>“Cat. 42 Ushabti of Horudja,”</em></a> in Ancient Egyptian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago by Emily Teeter and Ashley F. Arico, ed. Ashley F. Arico (Art Institute of Chicago, 2025).

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