Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti of Bener
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 canopic jar with a human-headed lid depicting an ancient Egyptian individual.
The artifact is a canopic jar featuring a lid sculpted with a human head, likely representing one of the Four Sons of Horus. The body of the jar displays vertical columns of hieroglyphs that are partially legible. The overall design is typical of New Kingdom funerary art, with a polished finish and careful inscription work.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
alabaster
Signs
Ankh ×2
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246257 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 44.4.5 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544875 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.
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