Civic Archaeological Museum of Bologna: three ushabti statuettes of Petamenophis.Inventory EG 2168 - 2169 - 2170.The ushabti are funerary statuettes, with a mummiform appearance (with a mummy-shaped body) that hold in their hands, crossed at the chest, agricultural tools, such as wedges, hoes and a bag for seeds. Made of different materials (wood, stone, terracotta, faience), they were part of thegrave goods, that is, the set of objects placed in the tomb next to the deceased to accompany him on his journey to the afterlife.The use of these particular funerary statuettes dates back to the Middle Kingdom (19th-18th century BC), when one example per tomb began to be introduced, in the burials of p
