Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Colossal Statue of Amenhotep III, reworked, reinscribed by Merneptah
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.
A seated statue of an ancient Egyptian figure.
The artifact is a seated statue of a male figure dressed in traditional Egyptian garb. The statue is intricately carved from stone, showing attention to detail in the facial features and attire. Hieroglyphs are carved into the base and sides of the statue. The figure wears a headdress, indicative of a person of significance, possibly a pharaoh or a deity. The statue is well-preserved, showing minimal wear and detail loss.
royal
Middle Kingdom
excellent
Materials
limestone
Signs
ankh ×2
djed
Visible text
"ptah-hotep"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247774 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.5.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544479 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.