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Ushabti of Ken-Amun

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Description

<p>This piece is carved in the round and painted. The mummiform figure has long hair that is striped blue and white. It has a white face, and the pupils, lashes, and eyebrows are neck. It wears painted necklaces. The arms below the elbows are not indicated.Ken-Amun was a high official and overseer of the army recruits. The text on the body of his unusually large ushabti tells us that it was "made by favor of the king."</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.194' rel='external'>Ushabti of Ken-Amun</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

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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 painted wooden ushabti figure in mummiform pose, with a wig/headdress and a vertical column of incised hieroglyphs across the front.

The image shows a standing, mummiform ushabti with arms crossed over the chest area and a stylized tripartite wig/head covering. The surface is worn but retains remnants of painted decoration in light and dark areas, consistent with a multi-color painted figure. The central portion includes an incised vertical hieroglyphic inscription; individual signs are visible but not clear enough at this resolution to reliably transcribe. No clearly legible Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is present. A base or stand is visible at the bottom, but it is not part of the artifact surface.

funerary unclear (likely Late Period to early Roman era, consistent with many painted ushabti, but not determinable from this image alone) fragmentary
Materials wood (base material implied by carved mummiform shape)paint remnants in red/white/blue/black tones (multi-color paint stated by catalogue; visible as faded light/dark areas)
Signs incised hieroglyphic signs (unreadable at this resolution) ×15

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1

English description

[Inscription] Incised in a column down the front and filled with blue

Connections

Deities Amun

Cross-references (3)

  • PNM-Object pnm:83910210 tier-2 (inventory-match)
  • Walters-AccNum 22.194 tier-2
  • Walters-id 13845 tier-2

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