Ushabti definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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At the Dahshour necropolis, south of the Giza Plateau, a Japanese mission from Waseda University came across four painted wooden anthropoid coffins, three wooden canopic jars and two ushabti (cultic figurine) boxes inside an unidentified burial shaft located in the northern area of the Ramesside tomb of Ta.

—Al-Ahram Weekly Online

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At the Dahshour necropolis, south of the Giza Plateau, a Japanese mission from Waseda University came across four painted wooden anthropoid coffins, three wooden canopic jars and two ushabti (cultic figurine) boxes inside an unidentified burial shaft located in the northern area of the Ramesside tomb of Ta. — Al-Ahram Weekly Online
The names of both persons are also written on the canopic jars and ushabti boxes, which contain at least 38 partly broken wooden statuettes. — Al-Ahram Weekly Online
Sandstone table of offerings and two stelæ (photographs V. XIIth dynasty statuette and ushabti, a late bronze, etc photographs VI. — El Kab
And between the row of mastabas to the north and the great wall were found the foot of an ushabti, perhaps of the XXVIth dynasty, and a pot (PL. XX, 13), probably Roman. — El Kab
The pieces include a ushabti, and bronze figures of Imhotep of Harpokrates. — Museum Blogs