Haarlem,Willem M.van. — Shabtis.

Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum, 1990. 2 vols (text & plates). [19] pages text (= text booklet in stapled wrappers), 1 loose leaf with corrections & 364 pages (on 182 loose leaves) with text and b./w. ills on recto and verso (77 line drawings & 399 b./w. photographs), together in two orig. stiff paper wrappers (as published). 4to. (Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum. Loose-leaf catalogue of Egyptian antiquities. Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam. Fasc. II-1/2). - New copy.This English-language book by Dutch Egyptologist Willem van Haarlem is a scholarly catalogue that provides a detailed survey of the Allard Pierson Museum’s entire collection of shabtis (funerary figurines) from various periods of ancient Egypt. The book offers a comprehensive, systematic overview of all the shabtis held in the museum's collection. Shabtis (also known as ushabtis or shawabtis) are small, mummy-shaped figurines that represented the deceased in the Egyptian afterlife; they were intended to come magically to life to perform arduous (agricultural) labor on behalf of the deceased. Each individual figurine is described and analyzed in detail, with information provided on aspects such as dating and exact material composition (e.g., faience, wood, stone, or bronze). - Text in English.