Table of Contents

The nature and uses of the shabti; Development to the end of the New Kingdom; The Third Intermediate to the Ptolemaic Period; Form, decoration and manufacture; The inscriptions; Shabti containers; Select bibliography; Museums

About the Author

Harry M. Stewart studied Ancient History and Egyptology at the University of London and after graduating developed a special interest in epigraphy and facsimile recording, co-operating in work of the Egypt Exploration Society and contributing articles in archaeology journals. In 1970, while concurrently teaching at the Institute of Archaeology, he was appointed an honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Egyptology at University College London, and has since published much of the inscribed material in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.