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

Shabti of Amenhotep III

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Description

Ebony, yellow paste

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 fragmentary inscribed artifact with vertical lines of hieroglyphs.

The object is a fragment of a larger piece, possibly a stela or tablet, featuring vertical columns of hieroglyphic inscriptions. The inscriptions are weathered but still visible, suggesting a religious or funerary context. The material appears to be stone, likely limestone. The condition is fragmentary, with some sections more worn than others.

hieroglyphic only Middle Kingdom fragmentary
Materials limestone
Signs ankh ×2 djed

Connections

Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116247735 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 15.2.12 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544494 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.