Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Ba-bird
Description
Wood, paint, gold leaf
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 painted wooden figurine of the ancient Egyptian deity Ra-Horakhty depicted as a falcon with a human head and a sun disk.
The artifact is a wooden sculpture depicting Ra-Horakhty, merging elements of a falcon and human with a sun disk atop its head. The figure is painted with vibrant colors, including red, green, and gold. The wings exhibit detail with patterning, indicating careful craftsmanship. The overall composition suggests its role in religious or funerary contexts, typical of representations focusing on deities with solar connections.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Ra-Horakhty
Materials
woodpaint
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243111 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 44.4.83 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545942 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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