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

Statuette of Amenhotep III

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Description

Chlorite schist

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 statue depicting a lion-headed figure kneeling on a base.

The artifact depicts a lion-headed figure, likely a deity, in a kneeling position. The figure wears a traditional nemes headcloth, suggesting royal or divine status. The base features carved inscriptions including hieroglyphs, which suggest its ceremonial significance.

religious New Kingdom good
Deities Sekhmet
Materials stone
Signs ankh

Connections

Deities Sekhmet
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116389484 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 66.99.28 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545898 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.