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

Reclining female figure on a bed

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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 small ancient Egyptian figurine depicting a reclining figure on a bed.

This artifact is a carved figurine made of a light-colored material, likely limestone or faience, depicting a reclining human figure with detailed hair, resting on a stylized bed. The style is simplistic yet detailed, with clear features and minimal color remnants.

funerary Middle Kingdom good
Materials limestone

Connections

Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116726724 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 15.2.8 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544785 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.