Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statue of the Royal Treasurer Taruru
Description
Quartzite
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 torso of a figure holding a staff, carved from red stone.
This is a fragmentary sculpture depicting the upper torso of a human figure. It is carved from a reddish stone, possibly granite. The figure's left hand holds a staff, suggesting a position of power or divinity. The detailed musculature and smooth surface indicate skilled craftsmanship, typical of royal or divine representations.
royal
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389580 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.125 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329904 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.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.