Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti of the God's Wife Maatkare, daughter 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.
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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- 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.