Ushabtis for Sale - Artemis Gallery
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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Egyptian Limestone Ushabti for Iry
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From ancient Egypt, ca. Dynasty XIX-XX, 1307-1070 B.C. Carved limestone mummiform shabti figure carved with relief arms crossed at chest above a column of...
$6,450.00
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Egyptian 19th Dynasty Wood Shabti (Neferu)
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From Egypt’s Ramesside Period, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1295-1180 BC. Carved from a single piece of wood, shabti was once covered with a base coating of gesso.
$1,795.00
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Egyptian Blue Faience Ushabti
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From ancient Egypt, 26th Dynasty, ca. 700 BC. Blue faience shabti with hieroglyphs in the center. 5-3/4"H (14.5cm), minor repairs plus flaking of surface, as shown.
$595.00 SOLD
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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.
