Karlee S's List: Throne of fire

• practice developed into the use of small statuettes known as Shabti (Shabtiu, Shabty, Shawabti or Ushabti).
• Shabti is a small human figure representing a person who would perform a given task for the deceased in the afterlife.
• (Shabti or Shabtiu) were modelled to represent the task that they would perform and given tiny tools
• Later on Shawabti (and Ushabti) were inscribed with a magical formula which would activate them
• Shabti were made from various materials including; faience, wax, clay, wood, stone, terracotta and, occasionally, glass and bronze.
• three separate terms for these models which indicated a slightly different use and were current at different times.
• "Shabti" may have originally derived from the word "Swb" ("stick") or "Shab"
• ShabtiEarly models interred in burials outside Thebes and the West Bank at the end of the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom.
• ShawabtiExamples from the Seventeenth Dynasty and the Eighteenth Dynasty from Deir el Medina, the West Bank and Thebes.

• Ushabti

  Models from the Twenty-first Dynasty and later.

   

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• are servants made out of clay or wax. Sometimes they are also called ushabti or shawabti.
• Shabti had multiple functions, one being that its master can use it to perform his or her duties in the afterlife.
• shabti serve as decoys, companions, and even librarians or informants
• shabti are made incomplete in some way; if their bodies are perfect, they will come to life and possibly kill their master.
• can report to its master by releasing the information in a magical ball of light.
• send a report upon being destroyed, but may also send a message periodically and automatically.

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