ushabti in a sentence
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- Due to the ushabti's commonness through all Egyptian timeperiods, and world museums'desire to represent ancient Egyptian art objects, the ushabti is one of the most commonly represented objects in Egyptology displays.
- Artifacts include the authentic remains of two Egyptian mummies, painted mummy coffins and masks, amulets, pottery, and ushabti all of which date primarily from the Late Period and from the Ptolemaic Dynasty.
- Early tombs also contained small models of the slaves, animals, buildings and objects such as boats necessary for the deceased to continue his lifestyle in the afterworld, and later " Ushabti " figures.
- Among the displayed artifacts are two statues of King Tutankhamun made of cedar wood and covered with gold, a statue of King Akhenaten, ushabti statues that belonged to the Nubian kings, a mummy of a child and a small polychrome glass vase.
- It is thought by some that the term " ushabti " meant " follower " or " answerer " in Ancient Egyptian, because the figurine " answered " for the deceased person and performed all the routine chores of daily life for its master in the afterlife that the gods had planned for them, although it would be difficult to reconcile this derivation with the form " shawabti ".