Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut
Description
Granite
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.
Seated statue of a pharaoh depicted in a kneeling position.
The image depicts a stone statue of a pharaoh wearing the traditional nemes headdress and a shendyt kilt, seated in a kneeling position. The sculpture is crafted in a rigid, frontal pose typical of royal portraiture in ancient Egypt, emphasizing the pharaoh's authority and divine connection. The surface shows some weathering, revealing the stone material characteristics.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247837 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.3.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544447 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.