Shabty of Maatkare
Description
Caption: Shabty of Maatkare, ca. 1075–945 B.C.E.. Faience, 4 5/16 × 1 5/8 in. (11 × 4.2 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, 16.177. (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 faience shabti figure with crossed arms, detailed with painted features.
This artifact is a faience shabti, a funerary figurine used in ancient Egyptian burial practices. The figure depicts a mummiform shape with arms crossed over the chest, symbolizing the deceased's readiness to serve in the afterlife. The surface features are accentuated with black paint, highlighting facial features and details on the headdress and body. The hieroglyphs inscribed on the front likely denote the name and titles of the deceased.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.177 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9452 tier-2
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- 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.