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| 100 | _aHarry M. Stewart | ||
| 245 | 1 | _aEgyptian Shabtis | |
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_aBuckinghamshire: _bShire Publications LTD, _c1995 |
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_a64 p., _c21 cm |
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_aShire Egyptology; _v23 |
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| 520 | _aThe 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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_aAncient Egypt _vFunerary |
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