shabti

The sad and shocking results of the complete inventory of the Egyptian Museum that Zahi Hawass, Egypt's Minister of Antiquities, had promised us on Friday are now in: On his website Saturday, Hawass reported that 18 objects 11 of which are wooden shabti statuettes from Yuya have been removed from the museum, presumably during the Jan. 28 break-in that occurred amidst the chaos in Cairo's Tahrir Square, where the museum is located.

Lee Rosenbaum: Credibility Gap: Two Gilded King Tut Statues Among 18 Objects Purloined From Egyptian Museum Lee Rosenbaum 2011

The sad and shocking results of the complete inventory of the Egyptian Museum that Zahi Hawass, Egypt's Minister of Antiquities, had promised us on Friday are now in: On his website Saturday, Hawass reported that 18 objects 11 of which are wooden shabti statuettes from Yuya have been removed from the museum, presumably during the Jan. 28 break-in that occurred amidst the chaos in Cairo's Tahrir Square, where the museum is located.

Lee Rosenbaum: Credibility Gap: Two Gilded King Tut Statues Among 18 Objects Purloined From Egyptian Museum Lee Rosenbaum 2011

But I would make do with a lovely blue Egyptian blue faience shabti (figures buried with the dead for company in the next world) from 332-330 B.C. (estimate: €600-€800).

Affordable Ancient Treasures Margaret Studer 2011

The place is full of convulsed testing chambers and filthy human and zombie (shabti) breeding pens.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

The place is full of convulsed testing chambers and filthy human and zombie (shabti) breeding pens.

Hal Duncan - Die! Vampire! Die! (Novella Review) 2008

Our own first dabblings in the mud, the first pots shaped upon the wheel and baked, the first shabti figurines of the Neolithic, the skulls of the dead refleshed with clay in Catal Huyuk -- these become metaphors of the transcendant divinity as shaper of * material*.

A Dark And Hidden God Hal Duncan 2006

Our own first dabblings in the mud, the first pots shaped upon the wheel and baked, the first shabti figurines of the Neolithic, the skulls of the dead refleshed with clay in Catal Huyuk -- these become metaphors of the transcendant divinity as shaper of * material*.

Archive 2006-02-01 Hal Duncan 2006

I can almost imagine a pharaoh preparing for the great day registering his funerary needs at the local department store: one royal flail, one royal crook, four canopic jars, three nesting coffins, dozens of golden rings, folding stools, and unlimited shabti.

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of Pharaohs by Zahi Hawass ricklibrarian 2006

I can almost imagine a pharaoh preparing for the great day registering his funerary needs at the local department store: one royal flail, one royal crook, four canopic jars, three nesting coffins, dozens of golden rings, folding stools, and unlimited shabti.

Archive 2006-01-01 ricklibrarian 2006

The shabti figure, took the place of the human funerary sacrifice which was common all over Egypt before the general adoption of the cult of Osiris under the XIIth dynasty.

The Book of the Dead 1895