Publication and study of a group of shabty boxes in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo

doi:10.21608/jssa.2019.40679

Publication and study of a group of shabty boxes in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo

Document Type : Original Article

10.21608/jssa.2019.40679

Abstract

Ushabti boxes played an important role in the funerary beliefs. They
included inside a kind of the statuette meaningful religious which
confined to Osiris belief, And emphasize the idea resettle life again in the
afterlife in ancient Egyptian belief.
Although some of the articles reported that the oldest of these boxes dated
to the Eighteenth Dynasty such as Aston, but the oldest box is dated to
First intermediate period, It was in the form of a coffin. This means that
Ushabti statuette which buried inside the box in the coffin shape, and
wrapped in linen , which united with the body of the deceased is buried
inside his coffin and wrapped in linen. To conclude, the Ushabti statuette
(= The body) of the deceased.