Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Ptah
Description
Bronze or copper alloy
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 bronze statuette of a deity holding a staff.
The artifact is a finely crafted bronze statuette depicting a standing figure with an elaborate headdress. The posture is rigid and symmetrical, common in depictions of deities or significant figures, holding a staff vertically. The surface shows a green patina, indicative of its age, and is mounted on a simple block base. The style suggests a focus on divine reverence, typical of religious artifacts.
religious
Late Period
good
Deities
Osiris
Materials
bronze
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- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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