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The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings) was a funerary figurine used in ancient Egyptian funerary practices. The Egyptological term is derived from ๐ ฑ๐๐๐๐ญ๐พ wšbtj , which replaced earlier ๐ท๐ฏ๐๐๐ญ๐พ šwbtj , perhaps the nisba of ๐๐ฏ๐๐ญ šw๊ฃb " Persea tree".
Another probable reason for the decline, and eventual end, of retainer sacrifices is the creation of shabti-figures. Shabti-figures were mummy-shaped figurines, meant to replace retainer sacrifices; "... the responsibility for carrying out tasks on behalf of the deceased was transferred to a special kind of funerary statuette, known as a shabti ...
Another kind of faience model of the deceased as a mummy seems to anticipate the use of shabti figurines (also called shawabti or an ushabti) later in the Twelfth Dynasty. These early figurines do not have the text directing the figure to work in the place of the deceased that is found in later figurines.
The Staff of Moses, also known as the Rod of Moses or Staff of God, is mentioned in the Bible and Quran as a walking stick used by Moses. According to the Book of Exodus , the staff ( Hebrew : ืึทืึถึผื , romanized : maแนญแนญe , translated "rod" in the King James Bible ) was used to produce water from a rock, was transformed into a snake and ...
Taharqa, also spelled Taharka or Taharqo (Ancient Egyptian: ๐ฟ๐๐ญ๐, romanized: t๊ฃhrwq, Akkadian: Tar-qu-ú, Hebrew: ืชึดึผืจึฐืึธืงึธื, romanized: Tฤซrhฤqฤ, Manetho's Tarakos, Strabo's Tearco), was a pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt and qore (king) of the Kingdom of Kush (present day Sudan) from 690 to 664 BC.
Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I in Greek) was the second pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the New Kingdom period, ruling c. 1294 or 1290 BC to 1279 BC. [4] [5] He was the son of Ramesses I and Sitre, and the father of Ramesses II.
Stick shabtis had a different purpose to most of the normal ushabtis. While ushabtis were most often placed into the burial chamber and had the function to work for the deceased, stick shabtis were always found in the overground cult chapel of Egyptian tombs, only at Thebes.
Phinehas slaying Zimri and Cozbi, by Joos van Winghe. Cozbi or Kozbi (Biblical Hebrew: ืึธึผืึฐืึดึผื, tr. Kozbฤซ) is mentioned in Numbers 25 in the Hebrew Bible as "[the] daughter of Zur", a prominent Midianite, and a wife or concubine of the Israelite Zimri, [1] son of Salu.