نشر و دراسة لمجموعة من صناديق الأوشابتي بالمتحف المصرى بالقاهرة

Abstract EN

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.