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.

Egyptian Ushabti High Priest Iyry of Ptah at Memphis
Egyptian Ushabti High Priest Iyry of Ptah at Memphis

Ancient Egyptian Ushabti from a find outside the tomb, most probably from Giza / Gizeh, as a means to be present in the sacrosanct precinct of (Osiris) - Sakris in...

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Fine Egyptian Wooden Black Ushabti
Fine Egyptian Wooden Black Ushabti

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...

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Egyptian Wooden Polychrome Ushabti
Egyptian Wooden Polychrome Ushabti

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...

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Egyptian Faience Overseer Ushabti
Egyptian Faience Overseer Ushabti

From ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, 21st-25th Dynasty, 1070-715 BC. Apple green faience overseer / foreman ushabti with hieroglyphs and facial designs, all...

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Important Egyptian Ushabti for Pa-di-Her-em-heb
Important Egyptian Ushabti for Pa-di-Her-em-heb

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...

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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.