Shabty of Princess Muthotep
Description
Caption: Shabty of Princess Muthotep, ca. 1075–656 B.C.E.. Faience. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.137E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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 small blue faience figurine of an ancient Egyptian figure with an inscription.
The artifact is a small faience figurine, blue in color, depicting a mummiform figure. The figure is detailed with painted black lines representing facial features and attire. An inscription is visible on the front, featuring hieroglyphic symbols in a vertical column. The craftsmanship and use of faience suggest it might have served a religious or funerary purpose, common in funerary practices.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.137E tier-2
- BKM-Object 116851 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.