Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti of Ankhu
Description
Granodiorite (?)
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 stone funerary statuette depicting a figure in a mummified form.
The artifact is a stone funerary statuette, possibly a shabti, intricately carved to depict a human figure in a mummified pose. The style reflects detailed facial features and the traditional crossed-arm posture typical of such artifacts. Vertical inscriptions are visible down the front, likely hieroglyphic text related to funerary practices.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Signs
djed ×2
ankh
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247983 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 08.200.17 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544341 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.