Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue

Upper part of a figure of Isis nursing Horus

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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.

Sculpture of a female figure, partially preserved.

The artifact is a fragmented statue of a female figure, crafted in a realistic style typical of Egyptian art. The figure has intricate braided hair and is depicted bare-chested. The sculpture appears to be made of limestone, and it retains detailed facial features and a serene expression.

decorative Ptolemaic fragmentary
Materials limestone

Connections

Deities HorusIsis
Materials Limestone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116389604 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 2021.41.39 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 329807 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.