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Shabti of the Overseer of the Portal Ahmose

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Description

Worker shabti of Ahmose, overseer of the portal. Late Period (Saite), Dynasty 26, ca. 664–525 B.C. Faience. H. 21.8 × W. 4.9 × D. 3.3 cm (8 9/16 × 1 15/16 × 1 5/16 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

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 turquoise-blue faience shabti-style figure with a mummiform body and crossed arms, inscribed with lines of hieroglyphs on the torso and base.

The object is a small upright, mummiform/standing shabti figure. The head has a stylized wig or headdress with a tripartite/striated look and a human face (eyes and facial features are painted or incised). The arms are crossed over the chest, with hands held near the torso. On the lower body and front, multiple horizontal bands of hieroglyphic text are incised and filled with dark pigment. The inscribed bands appear to include a combination of human/animal determinatives and standard shabti-style formulae, though the exact wording cannot be confidently read from this image. No clear cartouche (royal oval) is legible at this resolution. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. The surface is glossy and turquoise with darker deposits/wear. No explicit deities are clearly identifiable from the visible lines, though shabti texts often reference divine/afterlife concepts; these cannot be confirmed here.

funerary Late Period (Saite) (per catalogue; inscription not legible enough to confirm) good
Materials faience (turquoise glaze)
Signs incised hieroglyphic groups in horizontal registers (exact signs not reliably legible) ×20
Visible text "Hieroglyphic text in several horizontal lines/bands on the torso; specific transliteration not securely readable from the provided image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Hieroglyphic text in several horizontal lines/bands on the torso; specific transliteration not securely readable from the provided image.

Connections

Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116726774 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 17.194.2408 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 553145 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
  • 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.