The object E 67 belongs to the Ancient Egyptian Fund in the collections of the “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology in Bucharest. It is a singular piece, a wooden ushabti‑box whose funerary utility was to house the statuettes of funerary servants of shabti/shawabti/ushabti type. The lid of the funerary casket is missing. From the inventory records we learn only that it comes from the Mihail C. Sutzu donation (made sometime after 1870). Therefore, it is impossible to determine from which site the piece originates. Furthermore, its typological classification and the identity of its owner are rather problematic, and as a result, this severely affects the possibility of exact dating. The wooden ushabti‑box has been whitewashed then polychrome painted, and it still displays a hieroglyphic inscription which runs continuously, in columns, from right to left, on each of its four outer sides. The inscription consists of the offering formula addressed to several funerary deities: Osiris‑Khenti‑amentiw, Atum, Ptah‑Sokar‑Osiris, Ra‑Horakhty, Wennen‑nefer, Geb. The inscription is recorded in semi‑cursive hieroglyphic writing. The text is deteriorated to a significant extent, so that in some places the proposed reading can be reconstructed based on the information provided by similar offering formulas, due to the presence of relatively standardized expressions, or by association with other known formulas. In a few other cases, the difficulty of deciphering the inscription is caused by the fact that some hieroglyphs are drawn either extremely cursively, or it is possible that the scribe himself has confused the signs, or they are erased or partially damaged. This is the case of the back curved and shorter side 2 and front curved and shorter side 4 respectively, on which it can be noticed the quite visible traces of some erased hieroglyphs, as well as some other hieroglyphs which have been drawn carelessly. The inscription mentions the female name of the owner, Dd‑mwt‑i(w).s‑anx. This is a common name during the Third Intermediate Period (the 21st Dynasty and later), if we were to mention here only the case of a well‑known feminine character, the homonymous Priestess with the high rank of Chantress of the God Amun and Chief of Amun’s Harem of Thebes. The tomb where she is interred, MM60, is located at Deir el‑Bahari, in the Theban Necropolis, on the west bank of the Nile in current Luxor. It is also the burial place of several high‑ranking individuals dating to the 21st Dynasty. However, our current information does not suggest any connection between Dd‑mwt‑i(w).s‑anx, the feminine owner of the ushabti‑box E 67 from the “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archeology in Bucharest, and the 21st Dynasty homonymous Priestess of Amun in Thebes.

Keywords: : ushabti, ushabti‑box, Djedmwtesankh, Mihail C. Sutzu, “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology, Third Intermediate Period, Osiris‑Khenti‑amentiw, Ptah‑Sokar‑Osiris, Geb, Ra-Horakhty, Wennen-Nefer, Atum, Thebes, Deir el‑Bahari