Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Osiride Figure of Kenamun
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)
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.