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What is a Shawabtis?

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King Tut had a male parrot and a female greyhound. So count 'em, two (:


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What are mummy - shaped figures that work in the afterlife's fields for the mummy called?

Shabtis, also sometimes called ushebtis or shawabtis.


How many pet's did King Tutankhamun have?

King Tut had a male parrot and a female greyhound. So count 'em, two (:


Mummy shaped figures that work in the afterlife fields?

Shabtis, also called ushebtis or shawabtis. They helped with manual tasks in the afterlife. They were craved either from wood or stone.


How big are shabti's?

Shawabtis (or ushabtis or shabtis) - from ancient Egyptian wshb, to answer- are thought to have been servants for the dead person in the afterlife, in exactly the same way that they had real servants in this life.They only represented the "spirit servant" who would answer whenever the dead person's spirit called them, so they did not need to be full-size; most are only a few inches tall (perhaps in the range 3 to 7 inches, 7.5 to 18 cms).The link below takes you to a display of shawabtis in the British Museum collection:


Mummy shaped amulet?

It is called a ushabti, also spelled as shabti.


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