Home › Browse › WALTERS-EG › Object 220256
Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · figurine

Khnum

Source of record: Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

<p>Ram-headed Khnum stands with his right hand at his side holding an ankh symbol (broken off) and his left hand forward holding a long staff (partially broken).His atef crown is topped by the sun disc. He also wears a royal kilt, an engraved collar, and a long wig. His eyes are inlaid.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.411' rel='external'>Khnum</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.

Bronze-gold painted (or gilded) standing Egyptian male deity figure holding a staff, shown in a highly stylized, frontal pose atop a rectangular base.

The image shows a full-length, standing figure with a rounded head and a headpiece (partly obscured by photo resolution) wearing a long, vertically pleated garment. The deity’s arms are held in a formal pose; one hand appears to hold a long staff or implement. The figure wears kilt-like lower garments and a broad collar/neck ornament. A rectangular pedestal/base carries low-relief decoration resembling bands or hieroglyphic-style markings, but no clearly legible signs are visible at this resolution. The work appears dark/bronze in tone; any gold elements are not clearly distinguishable in the provided grayscale-like image.

religious unclear (could be Late Period to Ptolemaic/Roman; identification not certain from image only) good
Deities Khnum (catalogue ground truth; not confirmable from image alone)
Materials dark metal consistent with bronzepossible gold gilding not clearly visible
Signs unreadable low-relief band/markings on base

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1

English description

[On the front of the base] Khnum, give life, health, and high age, a long and good age (to) Hor, son of Khnum-em-tenr (?)

Connections

Deities Khnum

Cross-references (2)

  • Walters-AccNum 54.411 tier-2
  • Walters-id 13455 tier-2

Similar inscriptions · by content embedding

About this record's data
  • 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.
  • 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.