Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti of Wahneferhotep
Description
Wood, paint, gold leaf
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 small statue of a mummified figure with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a statuette representing a mummified figure, likely constructed from wood and adorned with paint. The figure features a lappet wig and crossed arms over the chest, common in funerary contexts. It bears hieroglyphic inscriptions along the length of the body, indicating its religious or funerary significance. The inscriptions are detailed and primarily black on a golden surface.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
woodpaint
Signs
hieroglyphic script ×20
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247929 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 14.3.70 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544366 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.