Lot Essay
Cf. Schneider, op. cit., I, pp. 161-163ff , "After the Amarna period a new type of funerary statuette appears, the shabti in the dress of daily life. This shows the deceased owner as a person dressed in the clothes of the fashion of the day, with his best pleated garments, shawls, skirts, wigs and sandals ... Like the mummiform appearance of the deceased, the statue in the daily appearance on earth may be called an expression of the Sah. It is the form in which the deceased, freed from the mummy bandages and clad as the living on earth, leaves his tomb and wanders through the necropolis. It is also in this form that he is enlightened by the rays of Re-Horakhte and that he is met by the living, in the cult-place or inner court of the tomb."