Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Figure of a Striding Man with a Long Kilt
Description
Wood
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.
Wooden statue of a male figure wearing a simple kilt with one arm missing.
The artifact is a wooden statuette depicting a standing male figure. The figure is unclothed above the waist and dons a simple kilt reaching just below the knees. The statue is missing its left arm, and there is a lack of detailed facial features. The style is simplistic, focusing on the overall form rather than intricate detail, suggesting it may have served a religious or funerary purpose.
funerary
Middle Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
wood
Connections
Materials
Wood
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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.
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