Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Overseer Shabti of Psusennes I
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 shabti figure with crossed arms holding tools.
The artifact is a faience shabti, a funerary figurine typically placed in tombs to serve the deceased in the afterlife. It features stylized crossed arms, characteristic of New Kingdom shabtis, and inscriptions on the body. The figure wears a tripartite wig, and the glaze is a vibrant turquoise.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
Ankh
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235296 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1971.272.13 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548419 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.