Research in the Manchester and Garstang Museum – Ciska, Glenn, Niek and Dik
Sources of inspiring shabti information
Internet
www.shabtis.comThis is Glenn Janes’ website. Janes is an authority in the field of shabtis and he creates comprehensive catalogues with excellent photos of the shabtis in Mid-England museums. He is also the author of the finest book to date about shabtis, ‘Shabtis: A Private View’.
The site gives a chronological overview of the development of shabtis, and an elaborate overview of the shabti formula. This information can also be used to decrypt inscriptions on other shabtis. The site also includes a clear overview of the attributes a shabti can have, supported with photos and approximate dates. Finally, it presents interesting links to museum sites with direct lists of shabti collections.
www.shabticollections.com
This site contains a database with photos of shabtis from private collections, and it describes the details of every shabti. The site also discusses books, and the free publications of shabti researcher Niek de Haan can be downloaded here. De Haan has co-authored the ushebti book ‘Psamtek Son of Mery-Neith’.
www.ushebtisegipcios.es
Awesome Spanish site of Moises Gonzalez Sucías from Spain with an enormous amount of information and a photo gallery with lots of shabti photos from various museums. So if you can understand Spanish, this is the place to be.
https://www.segweb.ch/index-shabtis
More than 17.000 names and titles of published shabtis researched and published by Jean-Luc Chappaz. Jean-Luc Chappaz is an Egyptologist, curator in charge of the Egyptian Pharaonic and Ancient Sudan collections at the Museum of Art and History at Geneva since 2003.
‘Must have’ books
Stewart, Harry M.
Egyptian Shabtis
(Shire Egyptology, 23). Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, Shire Books, 1995. 64 p., 52 ills.; pb. ISBN: 0747803013
Great booklet that discusses the development of shabtis in a clear and well-organised manner. The booklet contains a handy table to help identify and date shabtis.
Janes, Glenn
Shabtis: A Private View
Ancient Egyptian Funerary Statuettes in European Private Collections.
Paris, Cybele, 2002. 264 p., colour ills., with CD-ROM (PC only). ISBN 2951675828
Probably the most stunning publication ever about shabtis. With full-size photos of shabtis, back and front view. Its factual information is just as excellent, with an introduction by Prof. Hans D. Schneider, superb explanations and excellent references. Worth every penny. See www.shabtis.com
Janes, Glenn
The Amasis Collection
Shabtis and other artifacts from ancient Egypt
Manchester, 2020. 335 pages, hard back with many full colour and black and white photos.
The foreword of Jean Thomassen in this publication gives detailed information about the shabti art market over the last 60 years. In the book you will find high quality rare photo’s, research, references and background material about discoveries, shabtis, tombs, coffins and finding spots. This is a book for the library of serious dealers, collectors, musea and universities. See www.shabtis.com or Youtube
Books for expert shabti lovers
Aubert, L. – Bulte, J. – Yoyotte, J.
Les statuettes funéraires de la deuxième cachette à Deir El Bahari
Paris, Cybele, 1998. 144 p., 16 pls. ISBN 2951209207
Aubert, Jacques-F. – Aubert, Liliane
Statuettes funéraires égyptiennes du département des Monnaies, Médailles et Antiques 2005
Bibliothèque nationale de France, 16,5 x 24 cm, broché, 192 p., 294 ill. dont 10 en couleurs ISBN 2-7177-2304-8
Araujo, L.M.
Estatuetas funerárias Egípcias da XXI dinastia
p. 1116, Fundaçâo Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 2003 , ISBN: 972-31-1020-2
Bovot, Jean-Luc
Les serviteurs funéraires royaux et princiers de l’Ancienne Égypte
Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2003. 451 p., 16 illustrations en couleur, 640 illustrations en noir et blanc; édition brochée ISBN : 2-7118-4564-8
Haan, Niek de – Waanders, Ingeborg
Psamtek son of Mery-Neith
Hard cover 157 p. Info: www.shabticollections.com
Janes, Glenn
The Shabti Collections 1: West Park Museum, Macclesfield, soft cover 64 p.
The Shabti Collections 2: Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, soft cover 92 p.
The Shabti Collections 3: Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service, soft cover 98 p.
The Shabti Collections 4: Stockport Museums, soft cover 31 p.
The Shabti Collections 5: The Manchester Museum, soft cover 500 p.
The Shabti Collections 6: The Liverpool Museum, soft cover 590 p. Nearly 600 full-colour photographs, see example.
Info: www.shabtis.com
Kohl, Theresa
Diener für die Ewigkeit: Die Uschebti-Sammlung im Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum,
Hildesheim (Hildesheimer Ägyptologische Beiträge, Band 54)
Hard cover, 336 pages with photo’s of the illustrated shabti’s on CD, in total around 100 shabti’s and fragments (front, sides and back), written in German, issued in Juni 2018, ISBN-10: 3806788227, ISBN-13: 978-3806788228
Loffet, H.
La Collection Emmacha
Antiquités Egyptiennes. Tome 1 : Les shabtys et ouchebtys. Tome 2: Objets divers. coffret , 2 vol., 231 p, 287 p, relié
PARIS 2013, Réf : 16065
Schlögl, Hermann A.
Corpus der Ägyptischen Totenfiguren der öffentlichen Sammlungen Krakaus
Universitas Iagiellonica, Universitat Freiburg Schweiz, Krakow 2000, ISBN 83-7188-275-0, 293 pages (24×33 cm), B/W photographs, 250 vols. limited.
Schlögl, Hermann A. – Brodbeck, Andreas
Ägyptische Totenfiguren aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Schweiz
(Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Series Archeologica, 7). Göttingen, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1990. 356 S., 1041 photos.
Sousa, Rogério (editor); Maria Cristina Guidotti, Marianne Zarli, Rogério Sousa, Deborah Vannucci and Kathlyn Cooney (contributers)
The tomb of the priests of Amun (aka Bab el-Gasus, Cache II); Gate of the Priests series Volume 1 (Book 97)
Burial Assemblages in the Egyptian Museum of Florence
Hardcover: 576 pages, publisher: BRILL (October 25, 2018), language: English, ISBN-10: 9004386491, ISBN-13: 978-9004386495
Uriach Torello, J.
AQUI ESTAMOS! Estatuillas funerarias egipcias de algunas colecciones de Barcelona
ISBN 10: 8409176661 / ISBN 13: 9788409176663, 242 pages, over 80 shabtis, 29 from various museums and 53 from private collections (36 from the author’s collection)
Published by Userkaf Patrimonial SL, Barcelona, 2020
Whelan, Paul
Mere Scraps of Rough Wood?
17th – 18th Dynasty Stick Shabtis in the Petrie Museum and Other Collections, 160p, many illus. (Golden House 2007), ISBN-13: 978-1-906137-00-7, ISBN-10: 1-906137-00-5, Paperback.
Yoyotte, Jean
Tanis l’or des pharaons, catalogue exposition (34 shabtis with some unique photo’s)
Paris, Grand-Palais (Reliure inconnue). Editeur : Association Française d’Action Artistique (1 mars 1987). Langue : Français ISBN-10: 2865450570 ISBN-13: 978-2865450572