TAA i.12.24

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                                      CONTENTS OF THE SHRINE-SHAPED-BOXES.

159|999.   A SHRINE-SHAPED-BOX-OPENED.

160|1016.  A STATUETTE OF THE KING.

161|1004.  THE KING HARPOONING.

162|1010.  THE KING UPON A BLACK LEOPARD.

163|1023.  THE GREAT SERPENT OF THE UNDERWORLD.

                                                  THE SHAWABTI FIGURES.

Note:- It would seem that <with these Ancient Egyptians> the dead feared the corvées for Osiris, who,

as king of the dead, would continue to till and irrigate the land and

plant corn in the fields of the blessed, and would deal with his subjects

in thay/<t> world even as he did wj/<h>en he was their great king and agricultural

teacher on this earth. Hense^sic to escapes^sic any irksome duty in the next

world, such as might be entailed by a corvée, we find stored in the tomb

numbers of <small> sepulchral statuettes, known as Shawabti-figures, who were no less

than answerers for the dead. Their function was to act as substitutes for

the deceased. Upon the deceased being summoned these figures are bidden:

   “Then speak Thou, ‘Here amI^sic’”,

These figures were housed in small wooden kiosks.

164|1046. EXAMO/<P>LES OF SHAWABTI KIOSKS,

165|1056. A SHAWABTI FIGURE AFTER THE IMAGE OF THE OS<IR>IDE KING.

166|1057. THE HEAD SHOULDERS OF DO {Described Object}.   

                                STANDING IN THE CENTRE OF THE ROOM WAS:

167|1084. THE MEHERIT COW – the goddess who received the

                  deceased in the West as he entered thi/<e> firts^sic tunnel 

                  of night.

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