Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti of Taharqo
Description
Granite [a Nubian variety]
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 shabti figure with hieroglyphic inscriptions on its body.
The artifact is an Egyptian shabti, a funerary figure meant to serve the deceased in the afterlife. It features a carved representation of a person with crossed arms typically holding agricultural implements. The piece is made from stone and is inscribed with a series of hieroglyphs down the front, which are often spells from the Book of the Dead. The overall condition of the figure is good, with clear details and inscriptions.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Signs
ankh
djed
Visible text
"Transliteration not available"
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246231 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 18.2.10 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544883 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.