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Description: | Wood shabti. New Kingdom. Mummiform. Black hair, red/brown face and hands, black hieroglyphs down centre. Wearing collar. Traces of yellow glaze. 198mm high. Old label 110 4 on base. Foreman shabti W378. Inscribed with owners name- Ptah-Hotep. 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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