Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statuette of wrestlers
Description
Limestone, paint
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 sculpture depicting a kneeling figure engaged in an activity.
The artifact is a small sculpture showing a kneeling figure with a detailed posture suggestive of engaging in a task, possibly grinding or kneading. The style is simple, with limited detailing, indicating a focus on function rather than embellishment. The composition suggests an aspect of daily life, captured in stone, with attention to posture and movement.
daily life
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
limestone
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389486 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 66.99.10 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545883 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.