Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Shabti coffin, clay

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Description

Clay (unfired), paint

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 model of a plain bed or offering table made from clay with visible signs of wear.

This image depicts a small clay model resembling a bed or offering table commonly placed in tombs. The artifact shows evidence of wear, with visible cracks and an uneven surface. The style is simple, indicating it might have served a functional or symbolic purpose in a burial context.

funerary Middle Kingdom fragmentary
Materials clay

Connections

Found at Asasif
Materials Clay

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116280454 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 16.10.367a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546993 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.