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

Statuette of Wah

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Description

Cedar, plaster, paint, linen

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 wooden statue of a standing figure draped in a fabric cloth.

The artifact is a wooden statue depicting a standing male figure. The statue exhibits a finely crafted body and is wrapped in a tattered linen garment. The figure stands on a rectangular wooden base. The craftsmanship suggests attention to human form and drapery, characteristic of ancient Egyptian wooden artifacts.

funerary Middle Kingdom good
Materials woodlinen

Connections

Found at Asasif
Materials WoodLinen

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116413859 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 20.3.210 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545111 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • 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.