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Worker Shabti of Nauny

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Description

Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21, reign of Psusennes I, ca. 1050 B.C. Faience. H 8.7 × W 3.5 × D 2 cm (3 7/16 × 1 3/8 × 13/16 in.). From: Tomb of Meritamun (TT 358, MMA 65), first corridor, burial of Nauny, Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1928–29. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1930.

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 small blue faience shabti-like figure shown frontally, with a hands-on-legs pose and a column of incised hieroglyphic text on its front face.

The artifact is a compact, upright, figurine with a rounded head and a simplified human form. The body is coated in dark to bright blue glazed material (faience), with worn edges and areas where the glaze appears chipped or eroded. On the front (from the viewer’s perspective), there is a vertical column of black incised hieroglyph-like marks that resemble Egyptian script, running from the upper portion of the torso down toward the lower body. The facial features are minimal; the top of the head suggests a headdress or hairstyle but no clear wig lines are preserved. The stance and proportions are consistent with a shabti/ushabti type figurine rather than a statue of a seated or standing person in full scale. No clearly legible cartouche or royal name is visible, and no deities are explicitly identifiable from the visible marks. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible in the image.

funerary Third Intermediate Period (per catalogue); iconography/text legibility too limited to refine further from the image. poor
Materials faience (blue glaze)
Signs Incised hieroglyphic column (unreadable/partially legible; resembles Middle/late Egyptian sign forms) ×10
Visible text "Vertical incised hieroglyphic column on the front; exact reading unclear/illegible from the provided image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Vertical incised hieroglyphic column on the front; exact reading unclear/illegible from the provided image.

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116443939 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.3.26.24 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 625670 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.