99 Cents NR Rare 27 Dynasty Ancient Egyptian Ushabti nice size

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99 Cents NR Rare 27 Dynasty Ancient Egyptian Ushabti nice size:
$20.50

.99 Cents NR saleRareAncientEgyptianAmulet,27th DynastyAncient Egyptian Ushabti,
Awesome sizefound this one while cleaning the books on the shelf, and some other few smaller Egyptian items I thought were gone already,Payment is due at sales ending, no exceptions
Size: 5.5 inches long x 1 3/4 inches at the widest partRareAncient 27th Dynasty
Non Smoking Home as all my items are,no returns on this item at all!I have sold a big collection of this stuff with no issues, having manyUshabti, well over 50+any issue I may have had is due to a buyer that did not read the sale & try to pull a fast one,but my very good FB stands for it self, always someone that won a 99 cent item & are the most picky person in the whole world,
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An existence of eternal servitude The ancient Egyptians lived lives of obligations: the king, responsible for the world order and minor concerns like proper Nile floods and the welfare of his people, had to perform the ceremonies necessary before the respective gods; his servants, the noblemen, scribes and priests, served the king by shouldering most of his responsibilities, at times even impersonating him before the gods; while the common people were duty-bound to do the offerding of the royal administrators.

Ushabti of King Taharka
Petrie Museum website

These duties did not cease with death. The after-life was not a place which ran itself. The fields still had to be ploughed, the wheat reaped, the bread baked and the beer brewed: the deceased were going to be kept very busy. Fortunately for the rich and powerful not used to manual labour, stand-ins could be bought for as little astwo hundredths of a deben, though one surmises that those who could afford the best the country could produce would not be satisfied with personal substitutes as cheaply made as these. The answer to their prayers for release from eternal drudgery was a little statuette called anushabti[6], variously also referred to asshawabti(in the Thebaid) andshabti[2].
Nor did the less well-off fancy an eternity of toil. During the New Kingdom there were still few of these, such as the workman Setau from Deir el Medina who expected hisushabtito answer \"Here I am!\" just as theushabtisof his deceased superiors did when these were called to labour in the fields of the underworld and build irrigation ditches there.
Some think that the name of theushabtistems from the Egyptian word for answer, as theushabtiwas expected to answer the call to duty since the early days of the Coffin Texts:O ushabti, if I am called upon, if I am appointed to do any work which is done on the necropolis .... even as the man is bounden, namely to cultivate the fields, to flood the river-banks or to carry the sand of the East to the West, then speak thou \'Here am I!\'Coffin Text 472
A. Gardiner,Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction, p.32others doubt that this is the source of the name.
These first \'answers\' may have been virtual, as the oldestushabtifigurines, crude, uninscribed, often nude representations of the deceased, that were found, date to the beginning of the Middle Kingdom,[8]some time after their mention in the Coffin Texts, spells which were during the New Kingdom incorporated into the so-calledBooks of the Dead.[3]When they became part of the tomb equipment they had the shape of mummies with their arms folded across their chest, and they were inscribed with the titles and names of their owners. Spells were written onushabtis from the late Middle Kingdom onwards.
Strictly speaking, only those figurines intended to perform the duties of the deceased are considered to beushabtis. They need not have the form of mummies, as some New Kingdomushabtis wearing everyday clothes prove.
If at the beginning theushabtirepresented the deceased, later it came to be perceived more and more as a servant and during the late New Kingdom was referred to asHm, i.e. servant or slave.
Placed in coffins since the 19th dynasty a text, from which the following passage is an excerpt, calls on the gods to protect the deceased who haddied miserably, killed by his brotherand who hadnobody to protect him. According to this spell theushabtis were seen as slaves offered to Osiris by the deceased and not as hisalter egos, but separate from him, and his right to receive service from them stemmed from the fact that he had bought them:Behold the ushabtis, the slaves, men and women, they belong to your majesty, Osiris, they were all his slaves when they were on earth, it is he who acquired them. Make him direct them at the right moment, make them work in his (i.e. the deceased\'s) stead, at any time one remembers him.J. Cerny,Le caractère des Oushebtis d\'après les idées du Nouvel Empire, BIFAO 41 (1942), p.119 This development of demotion was accompanied by an ever-increasing number ofushabtis being placed in tombs. In the tomb of SetiI Belzoni found more than 700 ushabtis. At the height of this proliferation during the Third Intermediate Period many tombs contained one workerushabtifor every day of the year and 36 overseerushabtis, each \'responsible\' for ten labourers. These overseers, recognizable by the way they kept one arm pressed against the side of the body while there was a flail in the other hand, became rare during the Late Period, though the number of ordinaryushabtis remained high until it declined under the Ptolemies.
The simple act of buyingushabtis and placing them in the tomb was not always deemed to be sufficient to ensure their obedience. Neskhons, wife of the High Priest PinudjemII under the 21st dynasty, acquired an unspecified number of faienceushabtis, and offered her purchase to theoracleofAmenfor approval,VIP:I SHIP TO THE USA ONLY!I Do Combine S&H for $1.00 Extra per won sale tell it may reach dollar amount to ship Priority mail would then ship that way, Just FYIPLEASE NOTE THIS VIP Information below:Please ask any and all questions first before offerding!AbsolutelyNO RETURNS, No Acceptations, whether this part was read or not, again no returns, item is as is, this statementsupersedesany & all Return Policy\'s, Pay Pal or any other credit cards policy\'s on returns used, and this statementwill be sent to them as 100% legal & binding as a contract between buyer & seller, again whether this was read or not, & item is as is and information was given in this sale to the best of my knowing, so ask questions 1st, & you decide if you want to offer..99 Cent sales all payments are due at sales ending on that weekend, & I will not carry payments over to the next week if you offer on more items ending the next week,PLEASE Make Payment RIGHT AFTER sales END!S&H cost is what it is,
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