Shabty of the Woman Ahhotep
Description
Object Label: Ahhotep, nicknamed Tuiu, was married to a temple official named Ineni. Her shabty probably came from the tomb the couple shared at Thebes. This statue’s wide eyes and large, clearly defined mouth resemble the facial features on images of Thutmose I, his daughter Hatshepsut, and figures of the great courtier Senenmut, who lived during Hatshepsut’s reign. These stylistic conventions are characteristic of most early Eighteenth Dynasty sculpture and do not reflect Ahhotep’s actual appearance. Caption: Shabty of the Woman Ahhotep, ca. 1514–1425 B.C.E.. Limestone, 8 9/16 x 2 11/16 x 1 3/4 in. (21.7 x 6.9 x 4.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.122E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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- Brooklyn 37.122E PNM text
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 limestone shabti (mummiform figure) of a woman with a wig and stylized facial features, shown holding a cloth bundle and inscribed with a vertical register of hieroglyphs.
The image shows a tall, mummiform shabti figure carved in light-colored stone. The figure wears a tripartite wig/headpiece and has a stylized face with downcast or neutral expression. One arm appears drawn across the torso, with a clenched hand holding a folded cloth/bundle. The lower portion is covered by multiple horizontal bands of hieroglyphic signs arranged in registers across the front of the body. The hieroglyphs are clearly intended as an inscription but are not fully legible at this resolution. The object is photographed against a dark background, and the base is rounded/unfinished at the bottom. No clearly identifiable Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. A small museum inventory marking appears at the bottom left of the photograph, but the characters are not part of the artifact inscription.
Cross-references (3)
- BKM-Accession 37.122E tier-2
- BKM-Object 3971 tier-2
- PNM-Object pnm:83913759 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.