Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statuette of a Nude Woman
Description
Limestone, black pigment
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.
An ivory statuette depicting a female figure wearing a wig and stylized clothing.
The artifact is an ivory statuette representing a female figure with an elongated body and stylized features. She is adorned with a detailed wig and is depicted wearing a fitted garment with intricate patterns on the torso. The artistic style reflects the typical Egyptian canon with frontal symmetry and restrained expression. The statuette's craftsmanship is notable for the attention to detail, particularly in the carved patterns on the clothing.
decorative
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
ivory
Connections
Materials
Ivory
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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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