Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti of the Adoratrice of Hathor Henettawy, wife of Painedjem I
Description
Faience
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
The image depicts a small blue faience figurine, likely an ushabti.
The artifact is a blue faience ushabti figurine, characterized by its small size and detailed craftsmanship. The figure is portrayed with detailed facial features and traditional Egyptian attire, possibly holding agricultural tools across its chest, which is consistent with the ushabti's role as a servant in the afterlife. The faience material is notable for its vibrant blue color, often used in Egyptian funerary contexts.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
Possible hieroglyphs visible on lower section ×2
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414487 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 44.4.88 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545947 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.
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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.