Ushabti
Description
Caption: Ushabti, ca. 1075–656 B.C.E.. Faience, 2 13/16 × 7/8 in. (7.2 × 2.2 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, 16.373. (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 depicting a mummiform figure with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
This artifact is a faience shabti figure depicted in a mummiform, typical of funerary practices in ancient Egypt. The figure features arms crossed over the chest and a frontal view of a head with a headdress. Hieroglyphic inscriptions are visible on the body. The shabti likely served as a servant for the deceased in the afterlife, a common practice in Egyptian funerary tradition.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.373 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9626 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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