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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 × W. 3.4 × D. 2.2 cm (3 9/16 × 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. 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-painted faience Egyptian shabti figure shown front-on with arms crossed on the chest and an inscribed base area.

The image depicts a standalone, human-shaped shabti/ushabti figure with a rounded wig/hood and clearly defined facial features. The figure wears a head covering and has short arms positioned across the chest. The torso is covered in vertical lines of incised hieroglyphs near the lower front and/or along the lower torso/base portion; the exact spell/name is not fully legible at this resolution. No clearly identifiable cartouche is visible. The overall surface is mottled, consistent with fired faience with dark blue/green glaze, with areas of wear and loss. No visible modern labels or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text are present.

funerary Third Intermediate Period (as catalogued); exact dating uncertain from the image alone good
Materials faience (glazed ceramic)
Signs incised vertical hieroglyphic lines on front (specific signs unclear) ×20
Visible text "Vertical incised hieroglyphic text on the front/lower torso; individual signs not clearly readable in the provided image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Vertical incised hieroglyphic text on the front/lower torso; individual signs not clearly readable in the provided image.

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116444184 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.3.29.5 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 625829 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.