Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statue of Khentika with Shaved Head
Description
Black diorite
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.
Statue of a standing male figure with hieroglyphic inscriptions on the garment.
The artifact is a statue depicting a standing male figure, likely of a high-ranking individual or official, given the presence of inscriptions. The style features traditional Egyptian artistic conventions, with arms at the sides and feet together. The inscriptions on the garment are composed of hieroglyphs, suggesting a formal and ceremonial aspect. The stone material is polished, indicating skilled craftsmanship.
royal
Middle Kingdom
excellent
Materials
stone
Signs
ankh
djed
was
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243128 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 62.77 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545939 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.