Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti of Nebneheh
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.
Blue faience shabti figure with faint inscriptions on the body.
The artifact is a small blue faience shabti figure, depicting a mummiform shape with stylized facial features and crossed arms. It has a glossy surface, characteristic of faience, and faint hieroglyphic inscriptions are visible along the front of the body. The craftsmanship is indicative of funerary objects, used to serve the deceased in the afterlife.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
scarab beetle
Connections
Materials
Faience
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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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