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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4226786, member: 110350&quot;]I said in the &quot;spears&quot; thread that when I had a chance I&#039;d post photos of a few of my ushabtis and/or other Egyptian antiquities.&nbsp; So here goes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Two faience ushabtis and a bronze Osiris, all of which I bought in the 1980s. The ushabti on the right has no inscription, but I like his face:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1081479[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The ushabti on the left does have an inscription; here are a few more photos of it (most together with the Osiris figure) in which you can see the inscription:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1081496[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1081497[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1081500[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1081501[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I had no idea what the inscription on this ushabti says until a few years ago, when I posted a photo of it on a yahoo group I used to belong to. I then received an email from Niek de Haan (of the website <a href="http://www.shabticollections.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.shabticollections.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.shabticollections.com</a>), very kindly informing me that he recognized the smile on my ushabti, and that it&#039;s apparently one of a number of very similar ushabtis all created for the same person in the 30th Dynasty.&nbsp; An example is the one illustrated in the 1990 book entitled <i>Ägyptische Totenfiguren aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Schweiz</i>, by Hermann A. Schlögl and Andreas Brodbeck (Freiburg 1990).&nbsp; It&#039;s object number 191 on page 274.&nbsp; (See this copy of page 274, plus an enlargement of one of the photos on that page, both of which Mr. de Haan sent me.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1081502[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1081503[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see, the appearance and inscription are nearly identical to mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Mr. de Haan, the inscription on my ushabti (as translated from the German-language transcription in the book) means &quot;the illuminated one, the Osiris, the overseer of the army (general), Hor-em-achbit, born to Hathor-em-achet [his mother], true of voice.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s nice to know that finally, more than 30 years after I bought it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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