Worker Shabti of Nauny
Description
Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21, reign of Psusennes I, ca. 1050 B.C. Faience. H. 8.9 × W. 3.2 × H. 2.2 cm (3 1/2 × 1 1/4 × 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 faience shabti figure shown front-facing, with hands crossed over the chest and a column of incised hieroglyphs on its body.
The object is a standing, mummiform shabti with a rounded head, painted blue surface, and dark hair/curled wig rendered in raised/painted areas on both sides of the head. The figure’s arms are brought forward across the torso. On the front face/body there is a vertically oriented column of incised hieroglyphic signs (with some signs partially obscured by wear or loss of surface). The base and lower legs are simplified; the overall form is slender with a flat, rectangular base shape. No clearly readable cartouche or royal name is visible in the provided view. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is apparent.
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116444270 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.3.30.28 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 625888 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- 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.