Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Guardian Figure
Description
Cedar wood, plaster, paint
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 statue of a standing male figure wearing a tall headdress and holding a staff.
The artifact is a wooden statue depicting a male figure, possibly representing a pharaoh or deity. The figure is wearing a distinct, tall headdress that suggests regal or divine status. Clad in a kilt, the statue's posture is upright, holding a long staff in one hand, which is a common symbol of authority. The artistic style is characterized by attention to anatomical detail and the use of color, evident in the painted surface.
royal
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
woodpaint
Cross-references (5)
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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.