SHABTI, Egypt, c. 26—30th Dynasty (c. 664—332 B.C.), green-glazed pottery, belonged to a priest of unclear name.

Inventory number W 211. Height: 10 cm.

Provenance:
Sten Valter Wångstedt (1904—1985), then Lennart Diener.

Associate Professor and Chief Physician Lennart Diener was a pioneer in the use of X-ray technology. Already during his studies in the 1940s, he became interested in ethnography and Egyptology, especially from the point of view of medical history. In charge of X-ray diagnostics at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, he then became internationally known for his work examining mummies. He made a series of trips to Egypt where he was also invited to lecture at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. He also lectured at the Symposium on the History of Medicine in the Nordic countries, wrote frequently in Svensk Medicinhistorie Tidskrift and was appointed director of the Museum of Medical History.

Sten Valter Wångstedt was one of the truly great names in both Swedish and international Egyptology. He was an associate professor at Uppsala University's Department of Egyptology, participated in excavations, and was world-renowned for his specialist knowledge of a highly circumscribed area — the ancient Egyptian written language Demotic.

1955—1970 Sten Valter Wångstedt was director of the Egyptian Department at the Mediterranean Museum in Stockholm. It was during that period that he and Lennart Diener began collaborating and became good friends. Wångstedt sold many interesting objects to Diener from his own collection, all carefully museum-marked and catalogued. The remainder was donated to Uppsala University's Gustavianum Museum where it exists today.