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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 1.9 cm (3 1/2 × 1 5/16 × 3/4 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.

Small blue faience shabti/answer figure shown frontally with painted/incised facial features and a column of vertical hieroglyphs on its torso.

The image depicts a compact, human-shaped funerary figurine (shabti/ushabti) in deep blue faience. The figure is photographed against a light background, standing upright and facing forward. The head is rounded with simplified hair or head covering indicated by dark lines; the face has a nose and dark eye markings. The arms appear held close to the body. The body includes a vertical register of dark hieroglyphic text down the front, with additional marks around the lower torso; no surrounding cartouche or additional inscriptions are visible in this image. No clear deity iconography is identifiable from the visible styling alone, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present. There is no clear evidence contradicting the catalogued identification as a worker shabti, though the personal name 'Nauny' is not legible with confidence at this resolution.

funerary Third Intermediate Period (as catalogued) good
Materials blue faience
Signs Vertical hieroglyphic text (individual signs unclear due to resolution) ×8
Visible text "Vertical inscription on the front; exact reading including 'Nauny' is unclear/illegible in the provided image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Vertical inscription on the front; exact reading including 'Nauny' is unclear/illegible in the provided image.

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials Blue Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116444032 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.3.26.55 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 625723 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.