Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Figure of a male beer-maker
Description
Limestone, 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 sculpture of a kneeling servant washing hands in a basin.
The artifact is a detailed sculpture depicting a male servant bent over a basin, suggesting a scene of hygiene or cleaning. The figure is crafted with attention to anatomical detail, and the basin features concentric circle decorations. The style is characteristic of daily life representations in Egyptian art.
daily life
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
woodpaint
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- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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