Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Uninscribed shabti from the tomb of Nespekashuty(?)
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 blue faience ushabti figurine likely depicting a mummified figure.
The artifact is a small, blue faience ushabti, a funerary figurine used in ancient Egypt. It is depicted in traditional mummified form with arms crossed over the chest. The surface shows signs of wear but retains much of its original color, displaying the typical glaze of faience. The style is consistent with funerary objects intended to serve the deceased in the afterlife.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116234683 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1987.73.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544897 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.