Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Statue of Seti I

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Description

Granodiorite

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 partially preserved ancient Egyptian statue depicting a kneeling figure.

The artifact is a statue of a kneeling man, likely a pharaoh, crafted from dark stone. The figure is depicted with a formal posture, wearing a headdress and a kilt. The face shows some weathering, but the general features are still discernible. The hands are holding an offering table or similar object.

royal unknown fragmentary
Materials stone

Connections

Found at Abydos
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116413661 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 22.2.21 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544765 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.