The most beautiful of the Woking shabtis is WK34, a finely painted limestone fragment dating from the New Kingdom.

WK32 is inscribed Djed-Iset (Djedaset). It has a typed rectangular label on the back, reading: ‘ZED-ASET’. Such labels were placed on shabtis distrib (cont.)

WK35, inscribed Djed-Khonsu, is part of a group of five faience shabtis (along with WK15, 16, 17, 56) that were thought by some to be carrying brick m (cont.)

WK29 is a blue-glazed pottery overseer shabti from the Third Intermediate Period, typically wearing a kilt and holding a whip.

WK40 is a faience amulet of a Djed pillar. This represents the backbone of Osiris. It is believed it would give stability to the mummy’s spine; and al (cont.)

WK48 is the lower part of a was sceptre. As an amulet, it ensured the continued welfare of the deceased, and gave them control of the afterlife. The b (cont.)

WK4 is a Nile silt vessel formed on a wheel. The long neck has three thicker bands around it. This WK4 is typical of early New Kingdom pottery and it (cont.)

WK7 is painted white. It has a flat base, a rounded ‘belly’ with ridged lines around it, a handle and a spout. It is decorated with a plant motif in b (cont.)

WK23 is a silver tetradrachm minted in Alexandria in year 2 of the reign of Antoninus Pius, 138/9 BCE (or possibly year 12). It shows an enthroned fig (cont.)

WK26 is a beautifully painted fretwork figure of gesso-coated wood depicting Anubis, the god of mummification. Fretwork (also referred to as openwork) (cont.)

WK25 is a Roman perfume or ointment bottle, usually referred to as an unguentarium. It was probably made of clear glass, although the decayed surface (cont.)

WK44 a rare pale green faience bell in the shape of the head of Bes, with a hole for suspension as well as another, presumably for the tongue of the b (cont.)

WK21 is a Sokar hawk from the Late Period. The wood is coated in gesso and painted yellow, white, red and green. It would have originally been part of (cont.)

WK39 is a blue faience flower pendant representing either a lotus or a papyrus flower. The papyrus was the symbol of Lower Egypt, and of youth. The lo (cont.)