ushabti
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Steven had to open Alexander's sarcophagus and disturb his remains in order to get to Ammit's ushabti, but he did it.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2022
The majority of the episode is spent on Steven and Layla working together to find Ammit's ushabti.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2022
Her anger, mixed with the grief and horror of what Marc may have done, took precedence over Steven's discovery of Ammit's ushabti.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2022
The chamber also contained pottery, wooden funerary masks and ushabti figurines, which are small blue, black or white statues that ancient Egyptians placed in tombs to serve the dead in the afterlife.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2017
I have among my treasures a libation cup and a ushabti figurine—votive offerings from the Temple of Osiris, at Abydos.
From The American Child by McCracken, Elizabeth
A curious effect was obtained by glazing the head-dress, the inscription &c., of the ushabtis in dark blue, and then covering the whole with translucent light blue glaze.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
It first appeared on ushabtis at the end of the Saite period.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
Glaze deep blue 1500, brilliant blue 1400, poor blue 1300, green 1200: deep blue ushabtis 1100, pale and rough 1000.
From How to Observe in Archaeology by Various
The old decoration of the blue with designs and inscriptions in manganese-black is abandoned; on the ushabtis the inscriptions are now incised.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
About 700 ushabtiu figures were found in the tomb of Seti I, and many of them are in the British Museum.
From The Book of the Dead by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
Yet the common graves lack the receptacles for the viscera, lack magical texts, lack ushabtiu, and—in a word—lack all those things which are typical of the better-class graves of the period.
From The Egyptian Conception of Immortality by Reisner, George Andrew
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