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

Shabti box of Nakhtamun

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Description

Wood, 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.

An Egyptian painting depicting two figures seated with hieroglyphs surrounding them.

The artifact is a painted wooden panel showing two figures seated side by side. The figures are depicted in a traditional Egyptian frontal pose. The scene is surrounded by multiple columns of hieroglyphs, suggesting it serves a narrative or commemorative purpose. The style is indicative of typical Egyptian artistic conventions with flat colors and defined outlines.

funerary New Kingdom good
Materials wood
Signs ankh ×3 djed ×2
Visible text "Htp-di-nsw Wsir nb tA-Dsr"

Connections

Found at Deir el-Medina
Materials Wood

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116246786 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 47.139a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544770 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.