Shabty of the Scribe Amunemhat
Description
Caption: Shabty of the Scribe Amunemhat, ca. 1400–1336 B.C.E.. Wood, pigment (Egyptian blue), 8 9/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 7/8 in. (21.8 × 6.5 × 4.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 50.129.
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 wooden shabti figure with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a wooden shabti figure, typical of funerary art in ancient Egypt, designed to serve the deceased in the afterlife. It features a mummiform figure with arms crossed over the chest, adorned with a tripartite wig. The surface of the figure is inscribed with a vertical column of hieroglyphs running down the body, which are customary for identifying the individual and ensuring assistance in the afterlife.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 50.129 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3548 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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