Facsimile edition of the 1972 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1914 pioneering typological catalog of Egyptian Shuabtis, one of a number of such catalogs to be reissued in this new series.

Shuabtis, funeral statuettes made of stone or timber, were frequently encountered in early tomb and cemetery excavations. Petrie identified and describes a chronological sequence of development from simple statuettes emphasizing the head, which appear to be substitutes for real heads that were often removed from the body, through to later detailed forms that he recognized as substitutes for the mummy. He presents a discussion of the formula used in the inscriptions, their royal and sacred affinities, and identifies examples of additional texts. The examination of forms, formulaic inscriptions, materials and dating evidence is accompanied by transliteration of names, illustrated inscriptions, and over 650 photographed statuettes.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• CHAPTER I: SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BODY
  • 1. Position of the subject of shuabti
  • 2. Primitive removal of head
  • 3. Custom stated in texts
  • 4. Modern African custom
  • 5. Early figures of the dead
• CHAPTER II: THE SUBSTITUTE FOR THE MUMMY
  • 6. Stone image of the mummy
  • 7. The kingdom of Osiris
  • 8. Examples of mummy figures
  • 9. Inscriptions on figures
  • 10. Misdated figures
• CHAPTER III: THE GROWTH OF THE SHUABTI
  • 11. Rude wooden figures
  • 12. Inscriptions on rude figures
  • 13. Group of one family
  • 14. Conjuration described by Lucian
  • 15. The word shuabti
• CHAPTER IV: GROWTH OF THE SHUABTI FORMULA
  • 16. Simplest formula
  • 17. Associated with royal offering
  • 18. Lengthened formula
  • 19. Clause of numbering
  • 20. Clause of business
  • 21. The title Osiris
  • 22. The direction sehez
  • 23. Beginning of the workers
  • 24. Clause of smiting evils
  • 25. Exceptional clauses
  • 26. Rise of task-masters
  • 27. Complete text of XXVIth dynasty
• CHAPTER V: OTHER TEXTS ON SHUABTIS
  • 28. Messages to the dead
  • 29. The Aten formula
  • 30. Forthcoming of offerings
  • 31. Royal gifts in honour
  • 32. Description as servants
  • 33. Short formulae
  • 34. Meaning of carrying sand
• CHAPTER VI: FORMS AND MATERIALS OF SHUABTIS
  • 35. Use of names for dating
  • 36. Figures without tools
  • 37. Tools represented
  • 38. Task-masters
  • 39. Wood and stone figures
  • 40. Glaze, pottery, and mud figures
  • 41. Numbers in one burial
• CHAPTER VII: TRANSLITERATIONS
  • XVIIth dynasty 1–46
  • XVIIIth dynasty 47–83
  • XIXth dynasty 85–221
  • XIXth dynasty glazed 222–245
  • XXth dynasty 247–253
  • XXIst dynasty blue 254–265
  • XXIst–XXIInd dynasties 267–386
  • Green painted clay 390–407
  • Coarse faded glaze 408–411
  • Wood, painted black 424–432
  • Pottery, painted 433–461
  • XXIInd dynasty. Green glaze 464–531
  • XXVth dynasty. Incised stone 532–543
  • XXVIth dynasty. Incised glaze 544–578
  • Band and column 580–617
  • Narrow, back inscribed 620–639
  • XXXth dynasty. Latest 641–655