Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statue of the Goddess Sakhmet
Description
Granodiorite
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 statue of a seated ancient Egyptian deity with a large headdress.
The artifact is a stone statue depicting a seated figure of an ancient Egyptian deity. The figure wears a distinctively large headdress, a common feature in the depiction of deities. The statue is stylized in typical ancient Egyptian fashion with detailed attention to posture and traditional regalia.
religious
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247745 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 15.8.4 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544486 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.