Egyptian - Ushabtis
The ushabti (also shabti or shawabti) funerary/mummiform figures, usually of faience, wood or stone, were placed in tombs among the grave goods (often in large numbers, one for each day of the year). They were intended to take the place of the deceased in performing certain manual tasks in the after world. Ushabtis were used from the Middle Kingdom (ca.1900 B.C.) until the end of the Ptolemaic Period nearly 2000 years later.
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Fine Egyptian Wooden Black Ushabti
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Finely-executed wooden Shabti, dating to the Late Period, ca. 664 to 322 B.C. Standing mummiform figure, hands to chest, holding traditional hook and flail, one column of...
$3,250.00
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Egyptian Wooden Polychrome Ushabti
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Large, polychrome wooden mummiform standing ushabti, Late Dynastic Period, Dynasties 26 through 30, Ca 664 to 332 BC. Hands held to chest painted with central band of...
$2,495.00
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Egyptian Faience Overseer Ushabti
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From ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, 21st-25th Dynasty, 1070-715 BC. Apple green faience overseer / foreman ushabti with hieroglyphs and facial designs, all...
$1,595.00
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Important Egyptian Ushabti for Pa-di-Her-em-heb
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Extremely fine Egyptian Ushabti, Ptolemaic, ca. 200 BC. In turquoise-blue faience with very distinctive features and one of the most beautiful faces (with lovely almond-shaped eyes...
$6,950.00
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Strange, but true…
A sarcophagus is a funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved/cut from stone. The word "sarcophagus" comes from the Greek sarx meaning "flesh" and phagein meaning "to eat," hence sarkophagus means "flesh-eating;" from the phrase lithos sarkophagos the word came to refer to the limestone that was thought to decompose the flesh of corpses interred within it.
