Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Lion figure
Description
Faience
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 lion figure crafted from limestone.
The artifact is a limestone lion figure, standing on a rectangular base. The figure is roughly shaped, with simplified and worn features indicating a likely votive or symbolic purpose. The surface shows signs of aging with a patina and some erosion, suggesting it might have been exposed to elements over time. The style is simplistic, lacking detailed carvings which points to a possible utilitarian or everyday significance.
decorative
unclear
poor
Materials
limestone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280658 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.178 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546857 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.