First thing that caught my eye at the Kelvingrove today was this group of shabtis. I love these little figures, there’s something so personal about them, even though they were produced in their millions.

#kelvingrovemuseum #kelvingrove #kelvingroveartgallery #glasgow #shabti

Garden Shabti Shabti: a small human figure representing a person who would perform a given task for the deceased in the afterlife. In Ancient Egypt, pharaohs and those who could afford it were buried with a small ...

Have you ever found a garden shabti in your vegetable beds? They are a bit of world magic there to help your soil and remind you of the wonder of this world.

www.on-a-limb.com/garden-shabti/

#garden #ancientegypt #shabti

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I would like to know absolutely everything there possibly is to know about what this is:
www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/perl/gi-ca-qmakedeta.pl

And because the best way to get answers is to post the wrong thing I'm going to assert what I think […]

シャブティ（第３中間期）
高さ8.0cm、幅4.0cm、奥行き2.7cm
#shabti #egypt #thirdintermediateperiod #faïence #3dmodel #osiris #isis

死者の冥界での仕事を代行するために埋葬されたものです。ファラオ用のものはずっと大きかったり、装飾も豪華だったり、死者の書の呪文が書かれたりしますが、これはこれで立派なシャブティです。
#shabti #egypt #latekingdom #faiance #small #たまにはこういうのも #3dmodel