Catalogo degli Ushabti del Museo Egizio di Firenze, Volume I - Giacomo Cavillier

TheEgyptian Museum of Florence has one of the most important ushabti collections in Italy and Europe. Thecollection contains around eight hundred ushabtis, which originally belonged to different collections: Granducale, Nizzoli, Rosellini,Ricci, Schiaparelli. Other smaller groups contain objects belonging todifferent sources collected within the 19th and 20th centuries. The ushabticorpus of Florence belongs to the end of the Second Intermediate and RomanPeriod. In 2008, the "Ushabti Project" was started by the Egyptology and theCoptic Civilization Study Centre "J.F. Champollion" of Genoa, in cooperationwith the Egyptian Museum of Florence, which were interested in a complete studyand scientific publication of a new catalogue concerning the ushabticollection. The catalogue is divided into several volumes, providing a completedocumentation of the Florence ushabti collection. This volume contains ageneral introduction about the history of the collection, the abbreviations andtextual codes, the records, a photographic section, a useful index and abibliography.