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ID: 300400765
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300400765

 

Record Type: concept
ushabti boxes (funerary containers, ceremonial containers, ... Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name))

 

Note: Boxes used to house Egyptian funerary ushabti figures in tomb settings. Evolving from miniature coffins, ushabti boxes became larger during the New Kingdom, housing multiple figures, and were decorated with funerary scenes.
 
Terms:
ushabti boxes (preferred,C,U,English,UF,U,U)
ushabti box (C,U,English,UF,U,U)
shabti boxes (C,U,English-P,D,U,PN)
shabti box (C,U,English,AD,U,SN)
sjabti-kisten (C,U,Dutch-P,D,U,U)
sjabti-kist (C,U,Dutch,AD,U,U)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  V.TQ

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Objects Facet
Objects Facet
Hierarchy of Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
.... Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of Containers (hierarchy name)
........ Containers (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of containers (receptacles)
............ containers (receptacles) (G)
Hierarchy of <containers by function or context>
................ <containers by function or context> (G)
Hierarchy of ceremonial containers
.................... ceremonial containers (G)
Hierarchy of funerary containers
........................ funerary containers (G)
Hierarchy of ushabti boxes
............................ ushabti boxes (P,U)

Additional Notes:
Dutch ..... Kistjes waarin sjabti’s werden bewaard. Eerst waren dit kleine doodskisten, maar vanaf het Nieuwe Koninkrijk werden de kisten groter en werden ze versierd met funeraire scenes. 

Related concepts:
conjuncted with ....  ushabti
............................  (funerary sculpture, <sculpture by function>, ... Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)) [300184956]

Sources and Contributors:
shabti box............  [RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
.......................  British Museum [online] (1999-)
shabti boxes............  [RKD, AAT-Ned, VP Preferred]
.......................  British Museum [online] (1999-)
sjabti-kist............  [RKD, AAT-Ned]
.......................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
.......................  Begrafenisrituelen in het oude Egypte (2006)
.......................  KMKG thesaurus
sjabti-kisten............  [RKD, AAT-Ned Preferred]
..........................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
..........................  Begrafenisrituelen in het oude Egypte (2006)
..........................  KMKG thesaurus
ushabti box............  [VP]
.......................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
ushabti boxes............  [VP]
..........................  British Museum, London: A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the British Museum (1895) 111
..........................  Dunand and Lichtenberg. Mummies and Death in Egypt (2006) 65
..........................  Quibell, Tomb of Yuaa and Thuiu (1908) 40
 
Subject: .....  [RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
 
Note:
English .......... [RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
.......... British Museum [online] (1999-)
Dutch .......... [RKD, AAT-Ned]
.......... AAT-Ned (1994-)
.......... Begrafenisrituelen in het oude Egypte (2006)
.......... KMKG thesaurus

 

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