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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 8.9 × W 3.3 × D 2 cm (3 1/2 × 1 5/16 × 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.

Blue faience shabti figure shown front-on, with a rectangular incised text block on the torso/upper body.

The image depicts a small, upright, mummiform shabti (worker shabti style) in bright blue turquoise-colored faience. The head is rounded/covered, with a suggestion of a face and hair cap; the body is plain except for an incised column/rectangular panel of dark pigment-filled hieroglyphs on the lower front. No clearly visible carved agricultural or work implements are distinguishable at this resolution; the legs and lower body are simplified. The background is plain light, and the object surface shows wear/chipping consistent with an archaeological faience item. A few hieroglyphic signs are legible as a vertical arrangement within a rectangular cartouche-like frame, but the full name/title cannot be read with certainty from the provided image.

funerary Third Intermediate Period (per catalogue; exact signs not sufficient to independently date). good
Materials faience
Signs Unidentified hieroglyphs in a vertical, framed text panel (possibly name and/or title) ×6
Visible text "Heavily worn/partially legible vertical hieroglyphic text in a rectangular panel on the front; exact transcription unknown."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Heavily worn/partially legible vertical hieroglyphic text in a rectangular panel on the front; exact transcription unknown.

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116444012 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.3.26.41 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 625709 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.