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

Funerary Figurine of Nesikhonsu

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Description

Caption: Funerary Figurine of Nesikhonsu, ca. 1075–945 B.C.E.. Faience, 6 13/16 × 2 1/4 in. (17.3 × 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, 16.184. (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 funerary figure with painted hieroglyphs on the lower half.

The artifact is a small, mummy-shaped funerary figure, known as a shabti or ushabti, crafted from stone. It is depicted with arms crossed over the chest and wears a detailed headcloth. The lower half is inscribed with columns of painted hieroglyphs, which are in black on a lighter background. The lines of text are neatly arranged and cover the legs of the figure.

funerary New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials stonepaint
Signs Kheper Ankh ×2
Visible text "n/j mrw sDm wxrt"

Connections

Found at Thebes
Materials StonePaint

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 16.184 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 9457 tier-2
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