Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Harpokrates
Description
Cupreous metal, precious metal inlay
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 statue of a standing god with a finger to his mouth.
The artifact is a bronze statue depicting a youthful Egyptian deity, likely the god Harpocrates, characterized by his nude form and the finger held to his mouth. The statue is finely cast, with detailed features including the iconic sidelock of hair and a headdress. The patina on the bronze suggests significant age and careful preservation.
religious
Ptolemaic
excellent
Deities
Harpocrates
Materials
bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243026 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 45.4.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545967 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.