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Standing Man

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Description

<p>This sculpture is of a man standing with both hands clenched at his sides. He has a shaven head. and is wearing ribbed skirt. He has a cloth in his right hand. There is an inscription on the base.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.3' rel='external'>Standing Man</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

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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 dark, polished figurine shows a nude standing male (kneeling? seated legs not visible) with arms at his sides and a broad belt across the waist, holding a staff-like object or implement in the left hand area. The base is rectangular with painted or incised decorative motifs near one end.

The image depicts a single anthropomorphic statue/figure presented frontally on a rectangular base. The figure has a smooth, shaved/closely cropped head with a defined facial expression (closed mouth, inset eyes) and a short neck. The torso is nude, with incised or sculpted musculature and a necklace or chest ornament near the sternum. A wide belt is carved around the waist; below it are garment folds or panel-like elements, and the legs are together. The arms hang down along the torso; one hand appears to hold or grasp a slender object, though exact attributes are unclear from the image. The base has a darker surface with contrasting markings—possibly pigment painting or geometric/triangular incisions—visible at the front corner(s). No clear hieroglyphic column is visible, and there is no legible text in Greek/Coptic/Arabic. The catalogue description calls the object "Standing Man" and the materials brown stone; the visible surface appears dark and glossy, consistent with a stone sculpture, with no obvious contradiction to "standing man". However, because the image is monochrome and fine surface details are limited, the exact species of stone and any inscriptions cannot be confirmed.

royal unclear (likely ancient Egyptian sculpture; specific period unknown) good
Materials brown stone (catalogue ground truth)

Inscriptions (2)

Inscription #1

English description

[Translation] An offering that the king gives
Inscription #2

English description

[to] Osiris for ...qma, engendered by My

Cross-references (3)

  • PNM-Object pnm:83889658 tier-2 (inventory-match)
  • Walters-AccNum 22.3 tier-2
  • Walters-id 119 tier-2

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  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Walters Art Museum (Egyptian).
  • 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.