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Funerary Figurine of Nesitanebetisheru

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Description

Caption: Funerary Figurine of Nesitanebetisheru, ca. 1075–945 B.C.E.. Faience, 5 13/16 × 2 1/4 in. (14.7 × 5.7 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, 16.186. (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.

Blue faience funerary figurine showing a standing human figure with a broad wig/hat and hands positioned at the waist, holding a small object.

The artifact is a small, vertically oriented, blue glazed figurine with a stylized human body. The figure stands upright with legs together; the head is covered by a rounded wig/hat-like headdress. Both arms are bent forward toward the torso, with hands gathered at the waist area; a small item or fold is suggested near the hands. A continuous block of carved molded hieroglyph-like signs runs vertically on the lower torso/legs, with additional small sign groupings beneath the central panel. The background is plain, and no additional text appears outside the molded surface of the object. The overall look is consistent with a faience glazed surface with dark outlines and lighter blue interior fields.

funerary Third Intermediate Period (as in catalogue; exact dating based on image alone is unclear) good
Materials blue glazed faience
Signs column of molded hieroglyph-like inscriptions (exact signs unclear) ×20
Visible text "Molded vertical hieroglyph-like text on the lower body; individual sign readings are not fully legible in the image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Molded vertical hieroglyph-like text on the lower body; individual sign readings are not fully legible in the image.

Connections

Found at Thebes
Materials Blue Glazed Faience

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.186 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 9458 tier-2
About this record's data
  • 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.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.