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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.9.3 × W. 3.3 × D.2.3 cm (3 11/16 × 1 5/16 × 7/8 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. Subject: Hieroglyphs. 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-glazed (faience) Egyptian shabti figure shown frontally, hands crossed on the chest and with a vertical column of inscribed text on the torso.

The object is a small, upright, human-shaped shabti with a painted/blue glazed surface. The head is rounded with a simplified face; the arms are held close to the body, with hands appearing crossed over the midsection. A vertical inscription is visible along the front of the torso within a dark-outlined rectangular border; individual signs are present but are not fully legible at this image resolution. No clearly identifiable royal cartouche is visible. There are no legible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic inscriptions. No explicit depiction of deities is clearly readable from the frontal view; the figure conforms to the standard shabti format associated with funerary practice.

funerary Third Intermediate Period (consistent with catalogue) good
Materials faience (blue glaze)
Signs vertical register of hieroglyphs (unreadable individual signs at this resolution) ×10
Visible text "Vertical hieroglyphic text is present in a bordered panel on the torso; exact transcription unclear/not fully legible from the image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Vertical hieroglyphic text is present in a bordered panel on the torso; exact transcription unclear/not fully legible from the image.

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116444084 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.3.27.11 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 625765 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.