Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti Box of Yuya
Description
Painted wood
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 wooden box with a painted figure and hieroglyphic inscription.
The artifact is a wooden box featuring a depiction of a standing figure on one side, which appears to be stylized in traditional Egyptian artistic norms. The figure is painted in muted colors, and adjacent to it, there is a vertical column of hieroglyphs. The workmanship suggests careful attention to detail in both the depiction of the figure and the carving of the hieroglyphs.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
wood
Signs
unknown ×5
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413611 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.60a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544517 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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