Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti
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 ancient Egyptian figurine with inscriptions, likely a shabti.
The artifact is a greenish-blue faience figure, depicted mummiform with arms crossed. It features a headdress and a vertical column of inscribed hieroglyphs running down the front, characteristic of shabtis used in funerary practices. The style and composition suggest it was meant to serve the deceased in the afterlife, a common purpose for such objects. The glaze is well preserved, indicative of skilled craftsmanship typical in funerary objects.
funerary
New Kingdom
excellent
Materials
faience
Signs
Ankh ×3
Djed ×2
Was ×2
Visible text
"Htp-di-nswt Wsir nb Ddw"
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116414422 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 62.64.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545815 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.
- 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.