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ushabti

Ushabti were figurines placed in graves in Ancient Egypt and acted as assistants for the dead, doing all the meanial labor of the afterlife. In modern times, Egyptian peasants, or fellahin, used reproductions of them in fertility rituals. 19/05/09

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