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Shabti of Ity

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 86.1.24. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 86.1.24
Find spot: Deir el-Medina, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt approx. site location
Period: New Kingdom, Ramesside
Dynasty: Dynasty 19
Reign: reign of Ramesses II
Date: ca. 1279–1213 B.C.
Date range: 1279 BCE – 1213 BCE
Materials: ['limestone', 'paint']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Description

Shabti, Ity (perhaps Iineferty). New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19, reign of Ramesses II, ca. 1279–1213 B.C. Limestone, paint. H. 16 cm (6 5/16 in.). From: Tomb of Sennedjem (TT 1), Deir el-Medina, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: Egyptian Antiquities Service/Maspero excavations, 1885–86. Subject: Hieroglyphs. Credit: Funds from various donors, 1886.

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 painted limestone shabti (mummiform) figure shown frontally, with a wig-like headdress and folded arms holding tools or a ritual implement.

The object is a vertical, mummiform shabti figure with a rounded head and a long, striated wig/headdress. The face is carved with simple features (eyes, nose, and a slight mouth), and the figure’s arms are positioned across the chest/upper torso, holding what appears to be a long implement or tool. The lower portion preserves a rectangular painted field filled with dark incised hieroglyphs. Small traces of paint/gilding-like pigment are visible at the edges or along highlights. No cartouche is clearly visible; the text appears to be a vertical column of hieroglyphs rather than a royal name cartouche. The background is plain, and the figure is photographed against a neutral studio backdrop; the base is visible at the bottom.

funerary New Kingdom, Ramesside period (consistent with catalogue; exact dating unclear from image alone) good

Deities unknown

Royals unknown

Materials limestonepaint

Signs Hieroglyphic text (vertical inscription; individual signs not securely identifiable at this resolution) ×10

Visible text "A vertical column of dark painted/incised hieroglyphs is present on the lower half; individual words/signs are not legible enough to transcribe reliably from the image provided."

Connections

Found at Deir el-Medina

Materials Limestone Paint

Cross-references (4)

Wikidata-Q Q116252807 tier-1
Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
Inventory-Number 86.1.24 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
MET-Object 551122 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.
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.