Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Statue of a kneeling Kushite king
Description
Bronze; gold leaf
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 kneeling statuette of an ancient Egyptian figure, possibly royal or divine.
The artifact is a kneeling statuette of an Egyptian figure, likely portraying a royal or divine personage. The figure is depicted with detailed headdress and traditional attire, including a kilt. The sculpture is styled in a realistic manner typical of Egyptian statuary, with visible detailing on the clothing and headdress. The arms appear to be missing, suggesting age or prior damage.
royal
New Kingdom
fragmentary
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
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.