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Shabti
Africa, Egypt
Limestone

Museum number 1975-426

Shabtis are small figures, representing servants, that carried out manual tasks on behalf of the spirit in the afterlife. When first introduced as burial goods only one shabti figure was placed in the tomb but later there was one for every day of the year.

Shabti figure, carrying tools
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