Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
The Statue of the Official Mitry
Description
Acacia, gesso, 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 wooden statue of an ancient Egyptian male figure holding a staff and a scepter.
The artifact is a wooden statue depicting a male figure, possibly a servant or an official, standing upright with a staff in the left hand and a scepter in the right. The figure wears a kilt and a headdress, with a well-preserved facial expression. The surface shows signs of wear and age, typical of ancient Egyptian wooden sculptures. The overall style suggests a focus on realism and naturalism, with detailed attention given to the features and posture.
daily life
Middle Kingdom
good
Materials
wood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116413362 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 26.2.4a–c tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 543872 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.
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