Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti of the Overseer of the Portal Ahmose Late Period (Saite)
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
A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
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.