Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Shabti
Description
Serpentinite ?
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, carved stone figure representing a mummiform shape.
The artifact is a stone carving depicting a figure in a mummiform shape, possibly intended as a shabti or servant figure meant to accompany the deceased in the afterlife. The figure is simplistic with minimal detail, indicating basic representation typical of similar funerary objects. The surface shows signs of wear, suggesting age and historical artifact use.
funerary
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280890 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.3.349 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546667 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.