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Shabti of Siptah

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Description

Shabti, Siptah. New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19, reign of Siptah, ca. 1194–1188 B.C. Travertine (Egyptian alabaster). H. 7.6 × W. 5 × D. 4.7 cm (3 × 1 15/16 × 1 7/8 in.). From: Tomb of Siptah (KV 47), Valley of the Kings, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: Davis excavations, 1912. Credit: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914.

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.

Small, broken Egyptian stone ushabti/shabti figure fragment carved with vertical lines of hieroglyphic text on the front face.

The image shows a small, vertically oriented fragment of an ancient Egyptian shabti (mummiform servant figure), but only the upper portion is preserved. The surface is worn and beige/light tan, with a flat-to-rounded back and a slightly rounded top. The visible front face contains multiple closely spaced, vertical registers of incised hieroglyph-like strokes and blocks, suggesting an inscription naming the intended owner/royal figure rather than fully modeled iconography. No clearly identifiable deity figure, attributes, or full regalia are preserved in the fragment. The background is plain and modern, indicating the artifact is photographed against a neutral display surface.

funerary New Kingdom, Ramesside period (per catalogue; image is too fragmentary to refine further) fragmentary
Materials stone (travertine/limestone-like, possibly alabaster per catalogue)
Signs hieroglyphic inscription traces (vertical register) ×20
Visible text "Vertical incised hieroglyphic inscription is present, but the fragment is too small/worn to transcribe individual signs reliably from this image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Vertical incised hieroglyphic inscription is present, but the fragment is too small/worn to transcribe individual signs reliably from this image.

Connections

Found at Valley of the Kings

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116280037 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 14.6.273 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 559278 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.