Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Tusk figure of a man
Description
Hippopotomus Ivory
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 carved figurine depicting a robed figure with an ornate headdress.
The artifact is a slender, elongated statuette, carved from a whitish stone featuring brownish veins. The figure is draped in a long, flowing robe and adorned with an intricately designed headdress. The craftsmanship suggests careful attention to facial and structural details. Its simplicity could imply symbolic or ritualistic significance.
unclear
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
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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.