Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statuette of Horus spearing an antelope
Description
Cupreous metal
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 an ancient Egyptian deity.
The artifact is a small statue representing a deity, showcasing typical Egyptian iconography. The figure stands erect on a rectangular base, wearing a distinct headdress featuring multiple cobras, indicating its divine nature. The styling is consistent with classical Egyptian artistic conventions, with detailed attention to the headdress and traditional kilt.
religious
unknown
good
Deities
unknown
Materials
bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243078 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 45.2.11 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545962 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.