Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Figurine of a man
Description
Ivory (elephant)
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 small carved figurine resembling a mummified figure.
The artifact is a carved figurine representing a mummified form, likely intended as a funerary object. It is crafted with minimalistic detailing and shows a figure wrapped in bandage-like carvings. There are two small holes representing the eyes. A visible crack runs through the center of the figure, indicating some damage.
funerary
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
bone
Connections
Materials
Bone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116279909 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 54.28.2 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 547233 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.