Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Lion Subduing a Prince of Kush
Description
Faience
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 lion-headed statue likely depicting a deity, carved from stone with visible inscriptions.
The artifact is a stone statue of a lion-headed figure, possibly representing a deity such as Sekhmet. The composition shows a seated posture with front paws resting on an inscribed pillar. The style suggests a powerful and protective figure, common in Egyptian religious iconography. Notable features include the detailed carving of the lion's head and the presence of hieroglyphic inscriptions on the pedestal.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Sekhmet
Materials
stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389546 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 35.1.23 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544760 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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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.