In ancient Egypt, a figurine of a dead person, placed in their tomb to do their work for them in the afterlife.
Origin
, which may have been the material they were originally made from. The variant forms shawabti, shabti are borrowed directly from the earlier Egyptian forms šꜣwꜣbtj and šꜣbtj, repectively.
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