Talk:Ushabti
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[edit] Merge with Shabti article
This page really should be merged with the article Shabti. We don't need them both, and Shabti seems to be a bit more authoritative. As a newby (how long can I go on calling myself that?) I'm not sure how to do this. I tried looking at the instructions for deletions and redirects, but they're pretty Byzantine and I ran out of time before I managed to figure it all out (I'm doing this on my lunch break). -- CKA3KA (Skazka) 20:24, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
- When I first started adding info to Shabti/Ushabti, I didn't know the other page existed. I now know from the data on the pages, and some other various, lighter sources, that these two item "categories" of the "shawabti", covers two different time periods. Not being an expert in Egyptology, I can offer no further information. I created "Category:Egyptian artefact types", when I was barely learning Wikipedia. Only recently did a new page get added: Rods of ancient Egypt, by someone else.
- I did recently look at the Adze page (to be added to Category). It doesn't even mention the time frame of the Pyramids, when the adze was used, nor later its many representations in "Egyptian art" settings (or as an "artefact type"). Nor does it mention that the adze is a hieroglyph. At any rate, the Shabti page begins to explain the history, (of Ushabti).
- Until someone who knows the "artefact type" better, I think it should stay as is. Enuff said.Michael McAnnisMmcannis 02:19, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
The Shabti and Ushabti are different figurines in Ancient Egypt. The two articles should be kept separate. Leoboudv 06:24, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
