Ushabti
Description
Caption: Ushabti, ca. 1075–656 B.C.E.. Faience, height: 3 11/16 in. (9.3 cm); width: 1 1/8 in. (2.9 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, 16.376. (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 ushabti figure with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a well-preserved ushabti figure, typically used in funerary contexts to serve the deceased in the afterlife. It features a mummy-like form with simple facial details and crossed arms. The surface showcases hieroglyphic inscriptions down the front and exhibits a bluish-green faience glaze, which was commonly used for such objects.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.376 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9629 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.