17th-18th Dynasty, 1580-1290 BC. A wooden shabti figurine with a large wedge-shaped face with the eyes, nose and mouth drawn in black; wearing a single-lappet wig in black detail; tapering body with a short kilt modelled in relief, small feet accentuated in black paint; six horizontal lines of painted hieratic text to the front with a short version of the shabti spell; apanied by a ctom-made display stand. See Manchester Meum, accession number 6038, for a stick-shabti dedicated to Teti-sa-Intef; National Meums Liverpool, accession number M13590, for a female-shaped stick-shabti. Whelan, P., Mere Scraps of Rough Wood? 17th-18th Dynasty Stick Shabtis in the Petrie Meum and other Collections, London, 2007, pp.131-132. 132 grams, 20.8cm (190 grams total, 22.5cm including stand) (8 (9)"). Acquired mainly during the 1950s-1970s. Collection of Hugh Stanley Rsell (1924-2000"). , London, 20 October 2005, lot 8 (part"). Private collection of Egyptologist Paul Whelan, Hertfordshire, UK. Apanied by a copy of the relevant catalogue pages and a copy of Whelan, P., Mere Scraps of Rough Wood? 17th-18th Dynasty Stick Shabtis in the Petrie Meum and other Collections, London, 2007, where this piece is published on pp.131-132. Unlike most shabtis, stick-shabtis are mainly found buried in open areas of tomb chapels, sometimes wrapped in linen and sometimes deposited in wooden coffins. Despite the crude carving, several of the found figurines seem to have been dedicated to wealthy people.