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Egyptian Shabtis

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Shire Egyptology ; 23Publication details: Buckinghamshire: Shire Publications LTD, 1995Description: 64 p., 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780747803010
Subject(s): Summary: The ancient Egyptians believed that the statutory agricultural labour imposed on them in order to utilise the Nile floods would continue in the afterlife. To avoid this irksome duty, they devised the shabti, a figure which they hoped would deputise for them on being activated by the appropriate magic spell.
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The ancient Egyptians believed that the statutory agricultural labour imposed on them in order to utilise the Nile floods would continue in the afterlife. To avoid this irksome duty, they devised the shabti, a figure which they hoped would deputise for them on being activated by the appropriate magic spell.

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