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Shabti of the Commander of the Royal Fleet Tjanenhebu

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Description

Shabti, Tjanenhebu. Late Period, Dynasty 26 (Saite), Amasis, 570–526 BC. Faience. H. 18.7 × W. 4.8 × D. 4 cm (7 3/8 × 1 7/8 × 1 9/16 in.). Presumably from: Tomb of Tjanenhebu, Saqqara, Memphite Region, Egypt. Credit: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910.

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.

Turquoise-blue faience shabti/ushabti figure standing upright with a human face and arms crossed over the chest, wearing a headpiece and holding objects consistent with a crossed-tool pose.

The image shows a single small Egyptian funerary figurine (shabti/ushabti) modeled in turquoise-blue faience. The figure has a smooth, stylized human face with dark incised features for the eyes and a short, tripartite-style wig or head covering. Both arms are raised and crossed at the chest; in the left hand (viewer’s right) a held implement appears to extend outward, while the right forearm rests across the body. The torso and legs are fully covered by dense incised painted or etched hieroglyphic text lines arranged in registers, including a horizontal band near the chest and multiple lines descending over the body; some signs are too worn/blurred to read precisely at this resolution. No clear cartouche or legible royal name is confidently identifiable from the image. The base and lower feet are intact with a slight pedestal form. The back is not visible in this image. No separate Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.

funerary Late Period (per catalogue); exact sub-period unclear from image alone good
Deities unknown
Royals unknown
Materials faience (glazed, turquoise-blue)
Signs Unidentified hieroglyphic signs (multiple lines over body) ×30
Visible text "Multiple lines of incised hieroglyphic text over the torso and legs; individual sign readings are unclear at this image resolution."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Multiple lines of incised hieroglyphic text over the torso and legs; individual sign readings are unclear at this image resolution.

Connections

Found at Saqqara
Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116726752 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 10.130.1047b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 576466 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.