Shabty of Queen Henuttawy
Description
Caption: Shabty of Queen Henuttawy, ca. 1075–945 B.C.E.. Faience, 4 1/2 × 1 11/16 × 15/16 in. (11.5 × 4.3 × 2.4 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, 16.179. (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 funerary figure known as a shabti.
The artifact is a blue glazed faience shabti figure, typically used in ancient Egyptian burial practices. It depicts a mummiform figure with black painted details highlighting facial features and inscriptions. The figure stands on a small rectangular base and features a frontal hieroglyphic inscription, possibly identifying the owner or the role of the shabti.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.179 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3153 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.