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shabti
New Kingdom shabti. Wood, black/red paint. Mummiform. traces of horizontal hieroglyphs. 21cm high. 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 shabti act…
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- shabti
- New Kingdom
Type of item
- shabti
- New Kingdom
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- W456
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- United Kingdom
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First time published on Europeana
- 2015-01-27T15:05:53.425Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-07-12T18:15:31.908Z