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Shabty of the Scribe Amunemhat

Source of record: Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

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.

The same text in other collections

Linked by shared inventory number (BKM-Object 3548). Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

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.

A painted wooden Egyptian shabti (ushabti) figure shown standing with a wig and hands held across the chest, with a register of incised/painted hieroglyphs running along the torso and legs.

The artifact is a small, standing, human-shaped figurine with a shaved/toned face, a painted head-and-wig arrangement, and arms held in a folded pose at the chest. The body is colored dark brown with lighter paint accents, and the figure includes incised and/or painted hieroglyphic text on the torso (and likely continuing down the legs), arranged in rows/registers typical of shabti inscriptions (offering text/identity). No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. No cartouche is clearly legible from this image. A headdress/wig is present but the exact deity name is not clearly readable. The overall modeling and format are consistent with a New Kingdom shabti.

funerary New Kingdom (consistent with shabti type; exact reign/title unclear from image) good
Materials wood (dark brown surface)pigment (painted decoration; Egyptian blue not clearly distinguishable from this photo)
Signs Multiple incised/painted Egyptian hieroglyphic signs (exact transliteration unclear) ×30
Visible text "Hieroglyphic text on the torso/legs is present but too unclear at this resolution to reliably transcribe; no clearly legible name/callout is confirmed."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Hieroglyphic text on the torso/legs is present but too unclear at this resolution to reliably transcribe; no clearly legible name/callout is confirmed.

Connections

Found at Thebes

Cross-references (3)

  • BKM-Accession 50.129 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 3548 tier-2
  • PNM-Object pnm:83913763 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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.