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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · statue
Userhat Holding a Shrine of Amen
Description
<p>Inscriptions indicate Userhat was an artisan with the title, Chief of the Bronze Workers. Steatite is a relatively soft stone and was often used by the Egyptians for small sculpture.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.71' rel='external'>Userhat Holding a Shrine of Amen</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>
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 seated male figure (human statue) holds a rectangular offering shrine or panel in front of his torso, with the head modeled in a wig-like headdress.
The image shows a small carved sculpture carved in light-colored stone. The figure is seated with a straight posture, wearing a styled wig/headdress that frames the face and a garment draped over the body. Both arms are positioned forward, cradling or supporting a rectangular shrine-like element on his left side (the object appears integrated with the figure’s hands/forearms). The rectangular element has vertical boundary lines and areas of incised/relief decoration, consistent with a shrine or the face of a shrine containing relief details. No clearly legible hieroglyphic text, cartouches, or inscriptions are visible in the provided image. A dark plinth supports the sculpture. The overall subject aligns conceptually with a person holding a shrine.
religious
unknown (likely ancient Egyptian, but exact date not determinable from the image alone)
good
Deities
Amen (implied by catalogue title; no clearly readable Amen-specific iconography visible in this image)
Materials
white steatite
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
English description
[Inscription]
Connections
Deities
Amun
Cross-references (2)
- Walters-AccNum 22.71 tier-2
- Walters-id 36712 tier-2
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- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.