Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
A Tusk Figurine of a Man
Description
Probably elephant ivory and organic material
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.
An elongated figurine with a stylized human face.
The artifact is an elongated figurine made of ivory, featuring a stylized and abstract representation of a human face. The face is carved simply with prominent eyes and a minimal nose and mouth, giving it a somewhat abstract appearance. The body is cylindrical and undecorated, suggesting it might have been part of a larger composition or used as a standalone ritual object.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
ivory
Connections
Materials
Ivory
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.
- 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.