Shabty of Sati
Description
Object Label: A taste for richly decorated objects developed during the time of Amunhotep III, both in statuary and in the personal arts such as pottery and jewelry. This funerary figure, or shawabti, is decorated vividly with paste inlays in six different colors, conveying a sense of opulence and excess not found in shawabtis from any other reign. Despite the costliness of such a piece, its owner, a woman named Sati, was neither royalty nor a high-ranking official; her title simply means "mistress of the house." Caption: Shabty of Sati, ca. 1390–1352 B.C.E.. Faience, Height 9 13/16 in. (25 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.123E. (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.
Painted faience shabti figure with a mummiform body, wearing a striped nemes-like headdress and holding ritual implements on the chest; the front is covered with densely packed painted hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The object is a standing mummiform shabti with a human head and stylized facial features. It wears a long, striped headdress falling over the sides of the head; the headdress and upper body are painted in contrasting colors (beige/black/blue with yellow accents). On the upper torso, a painted collar and arm-like attachments support two side-held elements (likely shabti tools/implements), depicted in raised or outlined forms. The lower legs are separated by a painted vertical band, with the base preserved as a pale/cream area. The front surface, especially the torso and lower body, is filled with rows of blue-painted hieroglyphs (with some darker outlining). No readable Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. No clearly identifiable royal cartouche is legible from the image resolution; the inscription appears to be a shabti spell/name text rather than a full titulary. Background is a studio-style dark backdrop; the figure is photographed in full length, allowing assessment of surface paint and shape. The catalogue’s material claim of faience is consistent with the typical glazed/colored surface appearance, though exact fabric cannot be fully confirmed from the image alone.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.123E tier-2
- BKM-Object 3972 tier-2
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