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Drsimon asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

ancient egyptian servant statues?

i have to write a paper on this and need am required to have a website source. does anyone know of a website that gives a really thorough/ indepth explanation of servant statues? all i'm finding are little 3-5 sentence blurbs of what their purpose was.

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    1 decade ago
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    Well, there's a difference between "servant statues" and ushebti/shabti. Ushebti are all very similar to one another - they tend to be in mummiform and the usually have Chapter 6 from the Book of the Dead written on them. They first appear during the Middle Kingdom.

    Servant statues are a little different. They tend to depict individuals carrying out a variety of roles, such as butchering, baking, or making pottery vessels. They are often a little more individualistic, with more attention to facial details than one typically finds with ushebti. Servant statues appear in the Old Kingdom and continue into the early Middle Kingdom.

    Here are a few sources:

    http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/TRC/EGYPT/life.ht...

    http://www.eternalegypt.org/EternalEgyptWebsiteWeb...

    http://www.carnegiemnh.org/exhibits/egypt/shabtis....

    http://guardians.net/hawass/oldkingdom.htm

  • 1 decade ago

    Ancient artifacts Egyptian ushabtis

    Green faience, servant of the afterlife, a small mummiform figure that would ... Ancient Egyptian crosses, Egyptian bronze, marble, wooden carved statues, ...www.worldwidestore.com/artifacts650c.htm

    try this site..might find some usefull info on it..if not..send me an email..i lived in egypt for 3 years...and have loads of books on egypt...good luck

  • 1 decade ago

    http://touregypt.net/featurestories/ushabti.htm

    good article on the evolution of ushabti's

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