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- The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings) was a funerary figurine used in ancient Egyptian funerary practices. The...
- Stick shabtis (or stick ushabtis) are ancient Egyptian ushabtis made of wood. They have a rough, anthropoid shape, are not well-carved and bear just one...
- self-sale. Others suggest that shabtis were held captive because they were foreigners. The full extent of the origins of shabtis is unclear but historians...
- religious scenes. Common citizens had access to pieces of funerary art, such as shabti statues and books of the dead, which they believed would protect them in...
- third intermediate period 'shabti-maker (?) of the Amun domain' diamun / padiamun and the change in conception of shabti-statuettes". The Journal of...
- grinding stone. This unusual sculpture seems to be an elaborate version of a shabti, a funerary figurine placed in the tomb to work in place of the deceased...
- ancient Egyptian sculptural tradition. A ceramic jug of the Kerma culture A shabti of the Nubian King Taharqa, from a pyramid of Nuri, Sudan, Twenty-fifth...
- Picture-book, (over-sized), 319 pp. List of Objects, p 316-319, (about 350+). Shabti: "Shabti presented by Minnakhte"-(Nakhtmin), {hardcover, ISBN 1-58663-032-6}...
- Nasalsa was a Nubian queen of the Kingdom of Kush. She is known from a shabti, some inscriptions on tablets and cups, text on the stela of Khaliut, a dedication...
- decline, and eventual end, of retainer sacrifices is the creation of shabti-figures. Shabti-figures were mummy-shaped figurines, meant to replace retainer sacrifices;...