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

Maat

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Description

Copper alloy with traces of gilding

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 figurine with a human face and a wrapped body.

This artifact is a bronze figurine depicting a human figure with a prominent facial expression, likely representing a deity or a mummified individual. The figure is wrapped, suggesting a connection to burial or religious rites. The craftsmanship indicates a focus on facial detail while the body remains relatively simple in execution.

funerary Late Period good
Materials bronze

Connections

Materials Bronze

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116244389 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 10.130.1302 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545360 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.