Cairo museum is covered with the statues so often called the" Ushapties" usually they are made of different materials and belong to different periods, some are made of stone and some are made of ceramic or wood, some of it is from the old kingdom,2800 BC -2500 BC and some are bet recent . The ancient Egyptian mythology describes it as representations to the original servants and slaves who were used often by their owners to farm their own fields and perhaps having these statue was the only replacement to the limited tradition of entombing some slaves alive by the time their master dies as we found some of the predynastic graves filled with skeletons of who were clearly buried alive next to the master. The title Ushapti has two meanings in the Hieroglyphics one is translated as Washep a farmer with a determinative picture of papyrus reeds to represent Lower Egypt farmers and sometime with lotus flowers to represent Upper Egypt farmers while the other translation is to be washep which is a verb means answer or reply
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