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Description: | Wood shabti. New Kingdom. Mummiform. Black hair, red/brown face and hands, black hieroglyphs down centre. 210mm high. Wearing collar. Traces of yellow glaze. Belongs to same lot as Foreman W378. Owner Ptahhotep. Purchased by Wellcome in 1924. Spell 6 of the 'Book of the Dead' is the Shabti spell, which appears on some shabtis. In brief it can be translated 'O shabti, if I should be called upon in the Afterlife to make arable the fields, to move the grains of sand from East to West, you shall say 'Here I am, I shall do it.'" The text on these particular shabti's reads: 'The Osiris, scribe for the divine offerings of the House of Amun, Ptahhotep the Justified.' The shabti acted as a substitute for the deceased in the afterlife and would do the work demanded from their owner. (But see Poole, F. Slave or Double? A reconsideration of the conception of the shabti in the New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period. In C.J. Eyre 1998. 'Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists. Cambridge 3-9th September 1995'. Leuven : Peeters, 893-901). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | New Kingdom | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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