Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Funerary Figure of Akhenaten
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.
A statue of a standing figure with arms crossed over the chest.
The artifact depicts a standing figure with arms crossed over the chest, a common pose for Egyptian statues representing individuals in a state of repose or readiness for the afterlife. The statue has a simplified form and lacks intricate details, suggesting it might represent an everyday individual or a generic figure rather than royalty. The coloration and texture suggest it's made of granodiorite or a similar stone.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
granodiorite
Cross-references (4)
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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.
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