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Description: | Old label reading, "Ushabti or Respondant figure, Ancient Egypt" Egypt Ushabti figure with patches of the surface removed to show the interior of the steatite figure. The head-band, basket with straps, hoes, eyes and a single vertical line of hieroglyphs are added in black.
Inscription translates, "The Osiris, priest of Amun Ra, Meses, justified".
Ushabtis were placed in tombs, and were to carry out the work of the decased in the Afterlife. The were divided into workgangs of ten figures and one overseer. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | USHABTI : MUMMIES : BECCA : MED1_2007 : NORTH AFRICA : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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