Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · other

Small Shabty of the Chief Draftsman Amen-em-opet

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Description

Caption: Small Shabty of the Chief Draftsman Amen-em-opet, ca. 1075–656 B.C.E.. Faience, 4 1/8 x 1 9/16 x 1 7/16 in. (10.5 x 4 x 3.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.138E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Photograph of a small blue-green faience shabti (mummiform figure) with incised/painted hieroglyphic lines on the body.

The object is a mummiform statuette with a rounded head and a slightly indicated face. The figure wears a head covering and a broad collar-like element at the neck. The front and torso show densely incised hieroglyphic signs arranged in horizontal lines, with additional vertical sign groupings below, consistent with a shabti inscription. No clearly legible full name or cartouche is visible at this resolution. There is no visible modern text, and the inscription appears to be Egyptian-style hieroglyphs only. Color and surface suggest a glazed faience material (blue-green glaze). The shabti's overall condition is good; details are worn in places but the general form and sign layout remain visible.

funerary Third Intermediate Period (as catalogued; exact certainty limited by image resolution) good
Materials Glazed faience (blue-green)
Signs incised hieroglyphic groupings (individual signs not clearly readable) ×20

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Deities Amun
Materials Glazed Faience

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.138E tier-2
  • BKM-Object 116852 tier-2
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