Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Group statuette of two men and a woman

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Description

Steatite

AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06

Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A small stone sculpture depicting three standing figures with a shared back slab.

The artifact is a triad sculpture composed of three standing figures, likely representing family members or deities. The figures are stylized with elongated proportions and simple, detailed features. The sculpture is carved from stone and has a shared rectangular back slab, which provides structural support. The style suggests a focus on symmetry and balance, typical of Egyptian statuary.

decorative unclear good
Materials stone

Connections

Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116243224 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 66.99.9 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545882 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • 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.