Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Seated woman
Description
Sandy fossiliferous limestone
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 seated stone statue depicting an ancient Egyptian figure with a wig.
The artifact is a stone statue representing a seated individual wearing a traditional Egyptian wig. The figure is characterized by a serene facial expression and a simple, yet monumental composition. The statue exhibits typical Old Kingdom stylistic features with emphasis on symmetry and a sense of calm permanence.
funerary
Old Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
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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.
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