Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statue of Horus as a falcon protecting King Nectanebo II
Description
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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.
Statue of a falcon deity, possibly Horus, with a human figure beneath the falcon's chest.
The artifact is a stone statue depicting a falcon, likely representing the deity Horus, wearing a double crown. A small human figure is placed beneath the chest of the falcon, possibly indicating a pharaoh or priest. The style is typical of Egyptian religious iconography, focusing on proportions and symbolic elements rather than naturalistic detail. The base of the statue contains hieroglyphic inscriptions.
religious
New Kingdom
good
Deities
Horus
Materials
stone
Signs
falcon
Cross-references (4)
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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.
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