Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti inscribed for Nesbanebdjedet
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 small faience ushabti figure with hieroglyphs inscribed on its body.
The artifact is a blue-green faience ushabti with intricate details, depicting a mummiform figure holding agricultural tools, which are typical of such funerary items. The front features vertical lines of hieroglyphs, suggesting an inscription related to the funerary purpose. The figure exhibits the classic style associated with ancient Egyptian burial practices aimed at assisting the deceased in the afterlife.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
priest's staff
water ripple ×5
Connections
Materials
Faience
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.