Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti of Siptah
Description
Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), paint
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 ancient Egyptian shabti figure with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The image depicts a shabti, a funerary figurine used in ancient Egypt, likely carved from limestone. The figure features a traditional mummiform shape, with arms crossed over the chest. The head is adorned with a headdress suggesting royal or noble status. The body is inscribed with a series of hieroglyphs, characteristic of the style meant to ensure the shabti's magical activation in the afterlife.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Signs
Ankh
Djed
Other signs ×10
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247420 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 14.6.179 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544717 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.