Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti of Shedsuhori
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 blue faience shabti figure with black hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact is a shabti figure made of bright blue faience, depicting a mummiform figure with arms crossed over the chest. The figure's details, such as facial features, are stylized, typical of funerary art. Black hieroglyphs are inscribed vertically down the front, indicating its use as a servant in the afterlife, based on typical funerary inscriptions.
funerary
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Signs
reed leaf ×2
eye
water ripple ×3
Visible text
"Wsir nb pr"
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.