Identifier: osirisegyptianre00budg (find matches)
Title: Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Subjects: Osiris (Egyptian deity) Eschatology, Egyptian
Publisher: London, P. L. Warner New York, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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f a mummy and are commonly called Shabtiu, or Ushabtiu,^ The Shabd, or Shauabti,^ is a figure madeof stone, alabaster, wood, faience, etc., and is found intombs from the Vlth dynasty to the Roman Period. Inthe Vlth dynasty the Shabti appears to have beenuninscribed ; in the Xllth it frequently bears the nameand titles of the person for whom it was made, and withwhom it was buried ; and in the XVIIIth and followingdynasties, in addition to the name and titles of thedeceased, it bears a text which is identical with the VlthChapter of the Book of the Dead. Its earliest form isthat of a mummy with no hands showing, later it has itshands crossed over the breast,^ later each hand holds the emblem of life,* still later each hand holds a hoe V ,^ and ^ See the Shabti figure of Amasis I in the British Museum(No. 32,191). * See the Shabti figure of Amen-hetep II in the British Museum(No. 35.365)- ^ See the Shabti figure of Seti I in the British Museum(No. 22,818). Osiris and Human Sacrifice 215
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A Meroitic queen spearing captives.From a pyramid chapel at Meroe. 2i6 Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection last of all a basket is thrown over the shoulder.^ Thetext, which is cut or written on figures from the Xllthdynasty onwards, explains quite clearly the purpose whichthe figures were intended to serve, for in it the figureis called upon, in the name of the deceased person writtenupon it, to perform whatsoever labours he might beadjudged to do in the Other World. These laboursconsisted in tilling and planting and watering the fields,and in bringing sand from the East to the West, and indoing whatsoever had to be done in connection withagriculture in the Other World. Now, the earliest figures of this class are uninscribed,and the custom of burying mummy-figures of this kindwith the dead seems to be senseless unless we acceptthe view which we owe first of all to Professor Maspero,viz., that they represent the slaves who were buried,alive or dead, with their masters, in order that t

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