Nefertum
Description
Statuette, Nefertum. Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 664–30 B.C. Cupreous metal. H. 14 cm (5 1/2 in.); W. 3 cm (1 3/16 in.); D. 5 cm (1 15/16 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889.
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.
Bronze/copper-alloy standing small statue of a human-like deity figure with arms raised to the chest/holding objects, wearing a tall crown and a patterned garment base.
The image shows a small, dark patinated metal figurine standing upright on a modern rectangular plinth. The figure has a stylized human body and head, with a tall, column-like crown rising above the head. The torso bears incised/raised decorative patterning, and the arms are held forward at about chest height, each hand gripping or supporting an object (exact form unclear). The legs are rendered in a slender, straight stance. No clear facial inscriptions or readable text are visible on the figure. The overall workmanship and iconography suggest a small cult statue rather than a royal monument. There are no clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic inscriptions visible in this image.
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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.
- 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.