Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti
Description
Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
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 artifact is a shabti figurine, typically used in ancient Egyptian funerary practices.
This artifact is an ancient Egyptian shabti figurine, crafted with detailed facial features and a crossed-arm posture. The surface is inscribed with hieroglyphic text, which was common for these types of funerary objects. The style reflects traditional Egyptian artistry with attention to symmetry and proportion.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Anubis
Materials
limestone
Signs
Anubis
Djed Pillar ×2
Water Ripple ×3
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389474 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 45.4.7 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545972 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.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.