The word Ushabti is derived from the ancient Egyptian verb (washab), meaning “to answer” or “to answer,” hence the name of the Ushabti statues, meaning “those who respond.”  In stages of the history of ancient Egypt, religious texts were recorded on them as a kind of symbolic service linked to the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians, starting from the Middle Kingdom. These statues played the role of farms in the other world, where there were fields that needed to be plowed and harvested, just like the fields of this world, and the righteous lived in them and were in peace.  He and his wife served.  [1]

The “respondents” began to be placed with the dead pharaohs, princes, and high-ranking leaders starting from the Old Egyptian Kingdom (about 2600-2100 BC) and were in the form of life-sized heads of colored limestone.  [2] It was still placed in the graves of the dead, but over time it took the shape of the entire body, but in the form of small statues.  Therefore, these statues were sometimes depicted with a piece of wickerwork and an ax on their backs.  Texts from the Book of the Dead recorded on the statues also indicate this role.  They began in the Middle Kingdom by placing a single statue and then reached 403 during the era of the New Kingdom of Egypt (1470 - 1070 BC).  It does not include only one statue of the owner of the tomb, but statues similar to him, sufficient for the entire year. It also contains statues of scribes, presidents, and supervisors (Osir).  In later times, wooden boxes were found containing large numbers, reaching about 700 Ushabti.  The most beautiful examples found are the collections of Tutankhamun, which indicate the belief that the ushabti included the kings and the rest of the subjects as part of the belief in the justice of Osiris.