Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statue of Wepwawet and Isis-Hathor
Description
Limestone
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 of two Egyptian deities with hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The artifact features a standing pair of deities, likely including Hathor on the left, recognizable by the headdress, and possibly a pharaoh or other deity on the right. The composition is balanced, with detailed carving and a backing stela adorned with hieroglyphs. The figures hold traditional symbols and wear classic Egyptian attire.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Hathor
Materials
limestone
Signs
reed leaf ×2
basket
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247255 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 17.2.5 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544742 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.