Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · figurine

Onuris in the Attitude of a Warrior

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Description

<p>Electrum eyes. Double plume, disc. Right arm raised, left arm before body, to hold lance. Broken from base. Inscription around base.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2064' rel='external'>Onuris in the Attitude of a Warrior</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 bronze or gilt-cast Egyptian male deity figure shown standing upright and wearing a broad rectangular headdress and a large frontal collar, with one raised arm holding an attribute or gesture of combat/warfare.

The image shows a full-length standing humanlike deity with dark, well-defined facial features and a broad rectangular, vertically oriented headdress. The figure wears a prominent patterned collar and additional body adornments/garment lines indicated by incised grooves. One arm is raised upward with a bent elbow, while the other arm hangs down or is positioned to the side; no clearly identifiable weapon is fully legible at this resolution. The torso and legs are decorated with engraved/relief-like linear patterns, including a waistband or kilt/garment rendering at the lower body. The headdress face area includes decorative details over the forehead and around the eyes. The background is plain white, and the artifact appears as an isolated museum photo. No readable Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. No clearly legible hieroglyphic inscriptions are present on the body or headdress; only decorative patterning is visible.

religious Late Period to Ptolemaic/Early Roman (circa 664–30 BCE), unclear from image alone good
Deities Onuris (Onouris)unknown Egyptian warrior deity (likely Onuris as catalogued)
Materials metallic surface (likely bronze cast)gilded/electrum-like coloration

Connections

Deities Onuris

Cross-references (2)

  • Walters-AccNum 54.2064 tier-2
  • Walters-id 6342 tier-2
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