Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Harpokrates in an Egyptianizing Crown and holding the club of Herakles
Description
Bronze
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.
Bronze statuette of a child holding a dolphin.
The artifact is a bronze statuette depicting a nude child holding a dolphin over the shoulder. The figure is standing upright with a playful posture, and there is a noticeable patina across the surface, likely from age. The style and depiction might suggest influence from Greco-Roman art, which is often characterized by dynamic poses and lifelike representations.
decorative
Ptolemaic
good
Materials
bronze
Connections
Materials
Bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116242988 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 46.2.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545983 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.