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Shabty of Akhenaten

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.545. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.545
Find spot: Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: New Kingdom, Amarna Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Date: ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.
Date range: 1352 BCE – 1336 BCE
Materials: ['Sandstone (?)']
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Description

Caption: Shabty of Akhenaten, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Sandstone (?), 5 1/4 × 3 1/4 × 1 3/4 in., 1 lb. (13.3 × 8.3 × 4.4 cm, 0.45kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.545.

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.

Fragmentary stone ushabti/shabti-like figure with incised vertical inscription on the front.

The object is photographed against a white background. Only the upper portion and part of the torso are preserved, with the left and right shoulders/head area roughly rounded and the front surface showing a recessed/raised incised panel. On the front, there is a vertical column of hieroglyph-like incised signs (details are not fully legible at this resolution). The head/upper body appear blocky and partially damaged; no clear colored decoration is visible. The figure’s material looks like weathered, porous stone consistent with a sandstone-like surface (catalogue lists sandstone (?) ). No clear cartouche is readable, and no identifiable deity determinatives can be confirmed from the image alone.

funerary New Kingdom, Amarna Period (per catalogue) fragmentary

Deities unknown

Royals unknown

Materials stone (sandstone (?) suggested by texture; exact identification unclear)

Signs Incised vertical register of hieroglyph-like signs (text) ×8

Visible text "A vertical column of incised hieroglyph-like signs is present, but individual signs/wording are not confidently legible in this image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

A vertical column of incised hieroglyph-like signs is present, but individual signs/wording are not confidently legible in this image.

Connections

Found at Amarna (Akhetaten)

Royals Akhenaten

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.545 tier-2
BKM-Object 48114 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.
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.