Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statuette of Isis nursing Horus (missing above the legs), inscribed for Hor son of Padihorresnet
Description
Bronze, gilded silver, electrum; separate leaded bronze throne
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 depicting a seated figure with a headdress topped by a sun disk and cow horns.
The artifact is a bronze statue portraying a seated figure, likely a deity, characterized by a distinctive headdress consisting of a sun disk flanked by cow horns. The figure is seated on a simple base, and its posture suggests a sense of regality and calm. Notable features include the detailed rendering of the headdress and the serene facial expression.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Hathor
Materials
bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116243017 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 45.4.3a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545968 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.
- 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.