Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Figurine of Wepwawet
Description
Cupreous metal, gold wire
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 bronze statue depicting a jackal, possibly Anubis, adorned with a gold chain.
The artifact is a small bronze statue of a jackal laying in a composed posture, likely representing the deity Anubis. The figure is crafted with attention to detail, evident in the textural representation of the fur and alert posture. A gold chain is wrapped around the neck, lending a contrast to the dark bronze material and suggesting a ceremonial or decorative purpose.
religious
Ptolemaic
excellent
Deities
Anubis
Materials
bronzegold
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413920 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 10.130.1324 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545362 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.