Shawabti
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Shawabti
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Published 2019-03-13T09:45:49+00:00
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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 religion.
Ushabtis were placed in tombs among the grave goods and were intended to act as servants or minions for the deceased, should they be called upon to do manual labor in the afterlife. The figurines frequently carried a hoe on their shoulder and a basket on their backs, implying they were intended to farm for the deceased. They were usually written on by the use of hieroglyphs typically found on the legs. They carried inscriptions asserting their readiness to answer the gods' summons to work.
Technical Information
| Date published | 13/03/2019 |
| Complexity | Easy |
More Information
| Title | Shawabti |
| Date | c. 712-332 BC |
| Accession | SM1931.3.23 |
| Period | Late Period |
| Medium | Ceramic (Baked)- Faience |
| Credit | Scanned by Andréa Takantjas with the Artec Spider 3D Scanner |
| Record | https://semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu/collections |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | Harvard Semitic Museum |
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