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

Shabti

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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

Connections

Deities Anubis
Materials Limestone

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)
About this record's data
  • 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.