Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti of Mentuemhat
Description
Serpentinite
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.
Stone artifact with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a carved stone piece featuring multiple rows of hieroglyphic inscriptions. It appears to be a fragment of a larger object, displaying signs of age and wear. The overall shape suggests it may have been part of a column or pillar with text arranged in horizontal sequences. The carving style is typical of Egyptian craftsmanship, with detailed symbols that include representational and phonetic glyphs.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
limestone
Signs
ankh ×3
djed ×2
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116726739 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 19.3.6 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545490 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.