هيئات تماثيل الخدم الجنائزي : تماثيل الأوشابتي

Abstract EN

This research deals with the forms of the statuettes of the funerary servants, "the Ushebti figures", or the so-called respondent statues, which are often represented in mummified form and their arms are crossed on the chest, and they usually carry agricultural tools such as hoes and baskets.

the beginning of its appearance was from the period of the Middle Kingdom until the Ptolemaic period, where the Ushabtis statues were considered a way for the deceased to benefit from food production, and on the other hand, it was a means for the rich to escape from the manual labor required to produce food in the fields of the agricultural paradise of the god Osiris.

it becomes clear through the research that the shape of the statuettes of the funeral servants "the Ushebti figures" was not limited to the form of the mummy, but with the period of the New Kingdom, an iconic variety of Ushabti figures occur for the first time that we did not know before, where statuettes showing the owner in the dress of daily life , other statuettes with unconventional forms ; such as a single figure or pair of mummies on bier, or a milling servants, or an Ushabti figure in the shape of an amulet or a headless mummy, or mummy carved in relief on tablet or Ushabti figure with the head of an animal.