Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

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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

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Royals Hatshepsut
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.
  • 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.