Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Perfume vessel in shape of a monkey
Description
Faience
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 small ancient Egyptian statue of a baboon.
The artifact is a small statue depicting a seated baboon, crafted from a stone-like material. The baboon holds an object to its mouth, characteristic of Egyptian artistic representation of these animals. The style is simple yet detailed, with attention given to the creature's features such as the face and fur texture.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
stone
Connections
Materials
Stone
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116244512 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 1974.97 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545265 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.
- 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.