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Shabti of Shedsuhori

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Description

Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21, pontificate of Painedjem II or Psusennes III, ca. 980–930 B.C. Faience. H. 10.5 × W. 2.8 × D. 2.5 cm (4 1/8 × 1 1/8 × 1 in.). Presumably from: Second Cache (Bab el-Gasus), A.134, Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt; Thebes. Excavation: Egyptian Antiquities Service excavations, 1891. Credit: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A small turquoise-blue faience shabti figurine standing upright, with a human face and stylized arms and legs, and a vertical column of dark incised hieroglyphs on the torso.

The image shows a single upright shabti-like figure on a wooden display base. The body is a uniform turquoise/blue faience color with darker (black or dark brown) details for facial features and a vertical inscription running down the center of the torso. The figure has a broad, flat-topped headdress or wig-like mass, a bearded or chin area indicated by darker lines, and simplified arms folded at the sides/over the body. The legs are rendered with minimal separation at the bottom. The inscription consists of multiple stacked signs in a column; exact readings are not fully legible at this resolution, though the presence of a hieroglyphic text is clear. No clearly identifiable deities or royal cartouches are visible in the supplied view. No other scripts (Greek, Coptic, Arabic) are visible.

funerary Third Intermediate Period (catalogue ground truth; inscription and style broadly consistent, but exact date not fully confirmable from image alone) good
Materials faience (turquoise/blue glaze)
Signs vertical column of incised hieroglyphs (text of shabti formula/name) ×8

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116389609 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 2021.41.24 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 329790 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.