Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Figure of Isis nursing Horus
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 statuette depicting a seated figure holding a child.
The artifact is a small, likely faience statuette featuring a seated figure reminiscent of Isis with Horus. The figure is detailed, with the adult wearing a headdress and holding a child in their lap. The style is indicative of typical Egyptian artistic production, capturing both realism and symbolic elements.
religious
unknown
good
Deities
IsisHorus
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389608 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.31 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329796 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.