TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harry M. Stewart
TI  - Egyptian Shabtis
SN  - 9780747803010
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Buckinghamshire
PB  - Shire Publications LTD
KW  - Ancient Egypt
KW  - Funerary
N2  - 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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