Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Offering table with statuette of Sehetepib
Description
Limestone table; greywacke statuette
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 statuette of a seated figure with hieroglyphic inscriptions on a rectangular base.
The artifact depicts a seated figure atop a rectangular base with intricate hieroglyphic inscriptions. The style suggests it may represent an official or a deity, indicated by the artistic detailing of the figure's posture and attire. The hieroglyphs are carved into the base, showing the importance of the inscribed information possibly related to the figure. The composition is typical of Egyptian sculpture, balancing realism with symbolic representation.
hieroglyphic only
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
limestonestone
Signs
Ankh ×2
Djed
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280698 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.107a, b tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546805 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.