Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · papyrus
Ax head inscribed for Khumeh with two baboons and a papyrus column
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 carved artifact featuring two lions on either side of a central staff with hieroglyphic inscriptions below.
The artifact is a carved piece showing two stylized lions standing on their hind legs facing one another, with a vertical staff or pole between them. Below the lions, there are several hieroglyphic signs that seem to be part of a symbolic or textual message. The style is indicative of early Egyptian art forms, emphasizing symmetry and animal figures, common in ceremonial or symbolic objects.
decorative
Predynastic
good
Materials
stone
Signs
lion ×2
unknown ×3
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246384 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.7.834 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544816 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.