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| Keywords: Egyptian - Ushabti of Ah-mose - Walters 48397.jpg Ushabti meaning answerers which resemble miniature mummies were made of different materials such as wood or Egyptian faience ceramic-like material These funerary statuettes represent the individual whom they accompanied into the tomb and the afterlife If a god called on the deceased to perform labor in the afterlife this servant substitute magically invoked by a traditional spell would answer and do the work on behalf of the tomb's owner This ushabti figure displays its owner with a long wig and a divine chin beard with a plaited pattern and curved lower end He holds hoes for field work in his hands and has a back pillar The inscription which contains the Ushabti-formula from the sixth chapter of the Book of the Dead is laid out in nine rows below his arms ca 550 400 BC Late Period faience with light blue glaze cm 19 1 accession number 48 397 25882 William T / Henry Walters Collection Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T or Henry Walters Translation The Osiris the royal scribe Ah-mose born of Hetep-bastet place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ushabti in the Walters Art Museum Ancient Egyptian faience in the Walters Art Museum Works of the Egyptian late period Book of the Dead sixth chapter | ||||
