Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Shabti of the God's Wife Maatkare, daughter of Painedjem I

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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.

A blue faience shabti figure with hieroglyphic inscriptions.

The artifact is a small shabti figure made of blue faience, depicting a mummiform shape with arms crossed over the chest. The figure shows a typical style of shabti figurines, used in ancient Egypt as funerary objects. The figure has a slightly glossy appearance with an inscribed column on the front, containing hieroglyphic text.

funerary New Kingdom good
Materials faience
Signs Ankh Djed

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116414489 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 44.4.89 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545948 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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