Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti of Tjebure
Description
Serpentinite
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, carved shabti figurine covered in hieroglyphs.
This artifact is a finely carved shabti figurine, featuring detailed hieroglyphic inscriptions on its body. The figure is depicted in traditional mummy form, with crossed arms and holds a tool symbolizing agricultural duties. The craftsmanship exhibits precise detailing, especially in the facial features and inscribed texts.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Signs
Ankh
Djed
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413664 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 44.4.72 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544771 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.