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

Figure of baboon on a basket and with a pillar (<em>shebet</em> offering)

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Description

Faience, pale blue glaze

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.

Statue of a baboon sitting on a plinth.

The artifact is a small faience statue depicting a baboon seated on a plinth. The figure is finely detailed with smooth contours and incised details for texture, such as the fur on the head. The base of the statue features geometric patterns and hieroglyphic motifs.

decorative New Kingdom good
Materials faience
Signs unknown sign ×2

Connections

Found at Saqqara
Materials Faience

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116244327 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 10.176.45 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 545377 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.