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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8010012, member: 110350&quot;]My third, smaller, ushabti, made of glazed blue faience. The feet were broken off at some point and glued back on.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1389680[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1389682[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1389683[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1389684[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It isn&#039;t unusual for an ushabti never to have been inscribed. As I&#039;ve explained before, by the New Kingdom there were as many 401 ushabtis in each tomb (theoretically, 365 workers and 36 overseers, although the latter disappeared eventually). Accordingly, it&#039;s my understanding that the majority were always uninscribed. (Sometimes, forgers take genuine uninscribed ushabtis and apply fake hieroglyphic inscriptions -- often nonsensical, I believe -- to make them more valuable.) Also by the New Kingdom, mass production using molds was already common. See the summary of the history of ushabtis at <a href="https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/shabti/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/shabti/" rel="nofollow">https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/shabti/</a>. (Which is why my inscribed ushabti of the general Hor-em-achbit is so similar to several others I&#039;ve seen.) I also own a small paperback book published in the UK in 1995, by Harry M. Stewart, called &quot;Egyptian Ushabtis.&quot; (Even more useful and interesting, with many color photographs, is a 1994 paperback book called &quot;Amulets of Ancient Egypt&quot; by Carol Andrews, a curator at the British Museum.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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