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| Keywords: Egyptian - Ushabti of Kaha - Walters 22192 - Three Quarter.jpg This mummiform figure has long hair painted black with yellow and red cross lines at the ends He carries painted whips in his hands and a mattock in his right hand and a hoe in his left behind his shoulders He wears painted necklaces His flesh is red The piece has incriptions on the front and sides There is a deep crack from the head down Kaha was one of two chief workmen at Deir el-Medina the city of the craftsmen who carved and decorated the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings He was responsible for the large tomb of Ramesses II the Great between 1550 1069 BC New Kingdom wood with traces of white red black and yellow paint cm 21 6 accession number 22 192 35338 Abemayor Cairo date and mode of acquisition unknown as 18th Dynsaty no 3 B Henry Walters Baltimore 1931 mode of acquistion unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1931 Translation On front and sides Made for the master workman in the house of truth Ga-hay Kaha justified; Inscription Ushabti formula from Chapter 6 Book of the Dead Carved for Immortality The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2004-2005 place of origin Deir el-Medina present-day Western Thebes Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ushabti in the Walters Art Museum Ushabti of the Egyptian New Kingdom | ||||
