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

Human figure, possibly male Predynastic, Naqada III

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 23.2.21. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 23.2.21
Period: Predynastic, Naqada III
Date: ca. 3300–3100 B.C.
Date range: 3300 BCE – 3100 BCE
Materials: ['ivory']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Statuette fragment, male possibly. Predynastic, Naqada III, ca. 3300–3100 B.C. Ivory. h. 6.6 x w. 2.3 x d. 1.2 cm (2 5/8 x 7/8 x 1/2 in.). From: Egypt. Subject: Men. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1923.

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A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.

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Materials Ivory

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