Shabti of Amenhotep III

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A tall, dark-colored shabti figure shown frontally, with incised hieroglyphic texts covering its body and a standing pose atop a small support.

The object is photographed against a light background with the figure oriented straight-on. The shabti’s form includes a hat or head covering and a seated/standing body profile suggested by the carved legs and arms arrangement, but the most visually dominant feature is the dense field of incised hieroglyphs arranged in vertical columns across the figure. Several cartouche-like bordered areas are not clearly legible at this resolution; individual signs (including rectangular frames and repeated glyph groups) can be seen, but exact readings are uncertain. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. No explicit identification of deity figures is discernible beyond standard shabti layout elements; specific deity names cannot be confirmed from the image. Materials appear dark (consistent with ebony) and there may be lighter inlays or residue in recessed glyphs, but the presence of yellow paste cannot be confirmed visually from this image alone. The catalogued title claims Amenhotep III, but the name/cartouche text is not clearly readable in the photograph, so agreement cannot be conclusively verified.