Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti box of Nakhtamun
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"
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)
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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.
- 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.