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

Razor

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Description

Bronze or copper alloy

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 bronze statuette of an ancient Egyptian deity.

The artifact is a bronze statuette depicting an Egyptian deity, likely representing a protector figure. It features a detailed headdress and holds an implement in one hand. The style is characteristic of Egyptian metalwork with fine details and a stylized form conforming to ancient artistic conventions.

religious New Kingdom good
Deities Bes
Materials bronze

Connections

Deities Bes
Materials Bronze

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116247662 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 26.7.836 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544525 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.