Shabti of Shedsuhori ca. 980-930 B.C. Third Intermediate Period Mold-made "worker" shabti of blue faience. The figure is mummiform, with a slender cylindrical body from which the head, arms, hands, and feet emerge. The tripartite wig (longer in the back than in the front) is colored a solid purple-black, and crude eyes and eyebrows have been painted on the small face. The wrist are crossed over the chest, and each hand holds a hoe in dark purple-black paint. An inscription down the center of the body and legs and running onto the top of the feet reads "The illuminated, Osiris Shedsuhori, true of voice." Two ropes in paint emerge from beneath the wig in back and hang down, ending in a basket at the level of the buttocks. Cross-hatching inside the rectangle representing the basket indicates its fibers.This unassuming-looking shabti is in fact part of an excavated assemblage from the "Bab el-Gasus," a cache of 153 burials of members of the powerful Amun priesthood during the early First M