Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statuette of Amenhotep III
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
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)
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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.
- 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.