shabti

Wood shabti. New Kingdom. Mummiform. Black hair, red/brown face and hands, black hieroglyphs down centre. Wearing collar. Traces of yellow glaze. 180mm high. Foreman shabti W379. 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 ar…