Abstract
IN this volume, which forms part of the series of monographs planned by the author to cover the development of the principal departments in the civilization of ancient Egypt, Sir Flinders Petrie has surveyed from its origins the history of the custom of placing one or more small representations of the mummy in the tomb. The survey is more complete than any previous study that has been attempted, and covers not only the collection at University College, London, numbering 650 examples, but also a further 565 from the Italian and other museums. In addition to the register or catalogue of these, there is a corpus of the inscriptions, and the types are illustrated in a series of excellent photographs.
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Illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University College, London: with Catalogue of Figures from many other Sources. By Sir Flinders Petrie. (British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account, Forty-first Year, 1935.) Pp. x + 16 + 45 plates. (London: British School of Egyptian Archaeology, and Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1935.) 25s.
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Shabtis. Nature 139, 486 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139486a0
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