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

Osiride Figure of Kenamun

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Description

Wood, 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 wooden shabti figurine with hieroglyphic inscriptions on the front.

The artifact is a wooden shabti, a small funerary figurine meant to serve the deceased in the afterlife. It features a stylized human form with a serene facial expression, wearing a wig. The hieroglyphic inscriptions run down the front, suggesting it was meant to ensure the owner's duties in the afterlife were fulfilled. The wood's surface shows signs of aging but retains a polished finish.

funerary Middle Kingdom good
Materials wood
Signs ankh ×2 djed

Connections

Materials Wood

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116415544 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.5.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 548586 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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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.