Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statue of Senenmut Holding a Sistrum
Description
Porphyritic diorite
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.
The artifact is a statue depicting a seated figure holding a smaller figure with a lion's head.
This ancient Egyptian statue features a dominant, seated figure with pronounced striated hair, showing intricate detailing. It holds a smaller figure that appears to have a lion's head, suggesting a connection to divine or protective symbolism. The style of the hair, the pose, and the preserved details highlight skilled craftsmanship typical of Egyptian statuary.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116235415 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 48.149.7 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544469 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.