Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Mirror with a Handle in the Shape of a Young Woman
Description
Bronze or copper alloy
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 bronze mirror in the shape of the sun disk supported by a figure of the goddess Hathor.
The artifact is a bronze mirror featuring a large, rounded reflective surface supported by a standing figure of a female deity, likely the goddess Hathor, identifiable by the cow horns encircling the sun disk. The style is typical of ancient Egyptian religious artifacts, displaying detailed craftsmanship in the depiction of the goddess's features and attire.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Hathor
Materials
bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243205 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 66.99.25 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545895 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- 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.
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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.