In this funerary figurine, Pakhadisu is represented mummiform, with arms clasped across his chest, each hand holding a mattock (an agricultural implement for tilling the soil). He wears a three-part wig and a false beard. The inscriptions around the bodies of these figures, called shabtis, typically give the name of the dead person and quote Chapter 6 of the Book of the Dead, asking that the statuette substitute for the dead person in the Hereafter whenever he or she might be called upon to perform specific duties. By this time in ancient Egypt, there would be one shabti for each day of the year plus 36 overseers. This example is unusually fine in its modeling. (Source: F. D. Friedman, Gifts of the Nile, 1998.)