
Shabti of Tantowy
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 small, painted Egyptian shabti-like funerary figure shown frontally, with the body’s arms crossed and a rounded head, but with facial details largely worn away.
The object appears as a seated/standing shabti figure in profile-front view against a plain background. The head is rounded and the face is heavily worn, with no clearly legible facial features. The arms are positioned across the torso, with hands indistinct due to erosion. The body is painted in faded yellow/cream with scattered traces of darker and reddish-brown pigment, suggesting a once-colored surface. The lower portion is slender and worn; details such as any inscribed base text or tools are not clearly visible in this image. No cartouche or clearly readable hieroglyphs are apparent, and no Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.
Inscriptions (1)
English description
Cross-references (1)
- ARTIC-id 136595 tier-2
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About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Art Institute of Chicago (Egyptian).
- 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.



