Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Ax head with monkey figure
Description
Bronze or copper alloy
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 metal piece depicting a baboon interacting with hieroglyphic symbols.
The artifact is a metal piece with an arch-shaped frame featuring a baboon on the right side facing left, interacting with two hieroglyphic symbols. The craftsmanship is simplistic and the depiction is cut out from the metal, giving it a silhouette appearance. The overall style suggests a playful or symbolic representation, possibly serving as an amulet or decorative object.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
bronze
Signs
unknown sign resembling a water lily
unknown droplet shape
Connections
Materials
Bronze
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246385 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.111 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544815 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.