Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Funerary Figurine of King Pinudjem I

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Description

Caption: Funerary Figurine of King Pinudjem I, ca. 1025–1007 B.C.E.. Faience, 4 5/16 × 1 3/8 × 1 in. (10.9 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.189.

AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06

Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A blue faience shabti figurine with crossed arms and hieroglyphic inscriptions.

The artifact is a faience figure, commonly used as a shabti in ancient Egypt. It depicts a mummiform figure with crossed arms, typical of funerary statuettes. The surface is glazed in a vivid blue, and it features hieroglyphic inscriptions on the front, possibly indicating the identity or function of the figure. The figure represents typical iconography associated with shabtis, designed to serve the deceased in the afterlife.

funerary New Kingdom good
Royals unknown
Materials faience
Signs unknown ×5
Visible text "unknown"

Connections

Found at Thebes
Materials Faience

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.189 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 3158 tier-2
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