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.
A stone shabti figurine depicting an Egyptian figure with inscribed hieroglyphs.
The artifact is a shabti, a funerary figurine intricately carved from stone. The upper part shows a mummiform figure with a headdress, characteristic of ancient Egyptian art. The lower part is richly inscribed with hieroglyphs, detailing funerary or protective texts. The figure is well-proportioned and reflects the artistic style typical of funerary artifacts.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Signs
Ankh ×2
Djed
Was
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389514 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 19.3.7 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545491 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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