Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue
Seated Maat Figure
Description
Caption: Seated Maat Figure, 664–525 B.C.E.. Bronze, 3 1/16 x 7/8 x 1 1/4 in. (7.8 x 2.2 x 3.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.542E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A small statue of a seated baboon perched on a columnar stool.
The artifact depicts a baboon seated on a stool which features a series of decorative cut-outs. The statue style is simplistic yet detailed enough to highlight the characteristic features of the baboon, with its forearms resting on its knees. The craftsmanship suggests an emphasis on religious symbolism, potentially representing a deity.
religious
unclear
good
Deities
Thoth
Materials
bronze
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.542E tier-2
- BKM-Object 117185 tier-2
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- 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.
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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.