Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti of Thutmose IV
Description
Faience
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 bright blue faience statue of an Egyptian figure standing, adorned with hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a vibrant blue ushabti, crafted from faience. It depicts an Egyptian figure, possibly a noble or deity, with detailed features including a nemes headcloth and crossed arms. Black hieroglyphs are inscribed vertically along the front, adding significant detail. The statue's style and material suggest it was meant for funerary purposes, serving as a servant for the afterlife.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
Ankh
Djed
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246333 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.27 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544841 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.