Funerary Figure of Hapy
Description
Funerary Figure, Hapy. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, ca. 400–30 B.C. Plastered and painted wood. H. 41.5 cm (16 5/16 in.); W. 10.4 cm (4 1/8 in.); D. 29.9 cm (11 3/4 in.). Said to be from: Tuna el-Gebel, Middle Egypt. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1912.
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 painted, mummiform funerary figure standing on a rectangular base, with a broad wig-like headdress and patterned torso bands.
The image shows a single human-form funerary figure rendered in a tall, mummiform stance. The head has a stylized face with a dark painted collar/neck area and a light-toned wig/headdress that extends down the sides of the head. The upper torso is decorated with multiple horizontal bands of red, white, and dark ink patterns, including a wide central band with stacked motifs. Beneath, the lower body is mostly light with red highlights and additional painted bands near the hips. The figure stands on a rectangular, stepped base with painted surfaces; the bottom plinth shows a dark rectangular inset/panel. Overall appearance is consistent with a painted plaster-and-wood (or similar) sculpture: visible paint layers and an overall anthropomorphic/ritual body shape. No clear cartouche(s) with royal names are visible. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is apparent. A small symbol-like mark is visible near the chest, but the exact hieroglyphic spelling is unclear from the resolution, and no full inscription is confidently readable.
Connections
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116274526 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 12.182.37d tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 564553 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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