
This Deep Publication presents a comprehensive scholarly documentation ofushabti UB-006, a large mummiform funerary figurine in painted terracotta(red clay, white ground, polychrome decoration) dating to the 19th Dynastyof the Egyptian New Kingdom (ca. 1292–1186 BCE), held in the CollectionBeckers, Aachen (inventory no. UB-006; secondary code U-512). The object is remarkable for its clearly documented ancient usurpation: theoriginal, nearly body-encircling five-line primary inscription was erased inantiquity and replaced by a secondary inscription enclosed in a redrectangular frame. The usurper's name has been identified as Jt.f (jt=f,"his father"; Ranke I, 50,13). Notably, the ntr-sign, likely part of thetitle it-ntr (God's Father) of the original owner, was re-semanticised intothe divine name Wsir (Osiris) – an unusually refined act of epigraphicreuse. The surviving secondary inscription gives an abbreviated version ofBook of the Dead Spell 6. The object was first described in the Lempertz auction catalogue 622 (Cologne,1987, lot 1647), where the cataloguer raised the question of ancient reuse.It was acquired there by Prof. Hermann A. Schlögl (University of Zurich), whoconfirmed the usurpation through autopsy and published it in Schlögl/Brodbeck,Ägyptische Totenfiguren aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Schweiz(Zurich: University of Zurich, 1990), catalogue no. 74, p. 135. The present Deep Publication comprises nine sections covering: catalogue entry,usurpation as a phenomenon, historical context (19th Dynasty / Theban funeraryeconomy), object description and inscription, epigraphic analysis, technicalexamination (UV fluorescence at 365 nm, complete documentation of all surfaces),comparative catalogue, provenance, and references. The UV examination includesa full photographic series of all object surfaces and provides direct materialevidence for the usurpation, including traces of the primary inscriptionsurviving beneath the covering layer on the back and sides of the figure, andgreen-cyan fluorescence at the adhesive repair confirming the documented break. Published in German and English. Corresponding concept DOI of UB-006 PDF: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18245544 H: 22.2 cm. Collection Beckers, Aachen. Inv. UB-006.
