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The Egypt Centre has many shabtis which seem to have come from the Ramesseum.

The Ramesseum was built as a mortuary temple of Rameses II, but when he died it continued in use. In 1895-6, Quibell excavated many of the funeray chapels and storehouses of the 22nd-25th Dynasty (Quibell, J.E. 1898 The Ramesseum, 12-13). Over 200 pits were sunk into the floor and these contained large numbers of objects, including shabtis.


Photograph of the Ramesseum in 1917 and now


A selection of shabtis in the Egypt Centre, probably from the Ramesseum:

The shabti of Qedmerut

Some of the shabtis on loan from Woking College


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