Ushabti
Description
Caption: Ushabti, ca. 1075–656 B.C.E.. Faience, height: 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm); width at elbows: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 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, 16.375. (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 figurine with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The image depicts a faience shabti, which is a small figurine typically placed in tombs as a servant for the afterlife. The shabti is green-blue in color, characteristic of faience material, and shows a mummiform figure with a headdress. Inscriptions are visible on the front, consisting of several lines of hieroglyphs. The style is consistent with funerary objects used in burial practices.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.375 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9628 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.