Shawabti of Horkhebe
Description
Caption: Egyptian. Shawabti of Horkhebe, ca. 760–656 B.C.E.. Faience, Height 6 5/16 in. (16 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 61.197. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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 standing ushabti/shabti figure in dark blue-green stone-like material, shown from head to feet with a carved rectangular inscription on the torso.
The object is a small, human-shaped funerary figurine with a rounded wig/head and a tightly articulated body rendered in low relief. On the chest and upper torso it bears a vertically arranged panel of incised hieroglyphs; the signs are bordered and structured as a compact register, with additional grouping near the lower portion of the panel. The figure’s face/body details are worn; the overall surface appears weathered with speckling and loss. No clear Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. A museum-style plinth base is attached at the bottom. The image does not show a clearly legible cartouche or a fully readable name; specific sign-by-sign reading is therefore uncertain.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 61.197 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3716 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- 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.