Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti
Description
Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
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.
An ancient Egyptian shabti figure made from stone.
This artifact is a shabti figure, carved from stone, depicting a mummiform figure. The carving style is simplistic and iconic of funerary artifacts meant to serve the deceased in the afterlife. The figure stands upright with arms crossed over its chest, and it lacks intricate detailing.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280644 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 16.10.359 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546870 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.