Home › Browse › MET › Object 217155
Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Worker Shabti of Nauny

Source of record: Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21, reign of Psusennes I, ca. 1050 B.C. Faience. H 8.8 × W 3.4 × D 2.1 cm (3 7/16 × 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.

A small blue faience shabti/ushabti figure shown frontally, with arms crossed and a vertical inscription on the torso.

The artifact is a standing, mummiform shabti figure with a dark, rounded head and a blue painted/covered body. The arms appear crossed at the chest. A rectangular vertical panel of hieroglyphic signs is visible on the center of the torso, framed by dark lines; the signs are partially worn but clearly present. The base includes a simplified rectangular lower end, consistent with a shabti form. No visible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is present. No explicit royal cartouche is clearly readable from this image; only non-royal inscription-like signs are visible within the torso panel. The object surface shows typical faience color with darker speckling/abrasion.

funerary Third Intermediate Period (as catalogued) fragmentary
Materials faience (blue glaze)
Signs Hieroglyphic signs in vertical torso panel (exact identification uncertain due to wear) ×10
Visible text "Vertical panel of hieroglyphic signs on torso; exact transcription unclear from image resolution/wear."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Vertical panel of hieroglyphic signs on torso; exact transcription unclear from image resolution/wear.

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116444046 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.3.26.63 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 625731 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.