Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Kneeling Statue of Yuny
Description
Limestone, paint
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 depicting a kneeling figure presenting a smaller standing figure within a shrine.
The artifact is a detailed statue showing a large kneeling figure that appears to be offering or presenting a smaller standing figure enclosed within a shrine-like structure. The larger figure is adorned with a pleated kilt and wears a large wig. The statue is finely carved, with detailed inscriptions along the base and the walls of the shrine. The overall composition suggests a significant religious or ceremonial function.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Amun
Materials
limestone
Signs
djrt ×2
ankh
Visible text
"jmn"
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247242 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.2.1 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544741 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.